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whom there are many, when the meanness 

 cannot be resented ; the caddishly inconsiderate 

 persons of any class who, being charged a usually 

 very moderate fee proceed, not only to take 

 money's worth, but to waste and spoil — who, 

 when changing in a hotel bedroom, smother it 

 with mud, or take out a trim dainty skiff, and 

 do their best to wrench and grind her to pieces ; 

 the hooligans who leave a track of smashed 

 bottles and general ruin ; the bigots who, hard- 

 fisted enough themselves, look down on the kind 

 and generous whose calling, however strictly 

 honest, it does not please them to approve of. 

 ''Manners" in the best sense of the word were 

 a point of honour with him, and he thoroughly 

 approved of the Winchester motto. In this 

 spirit of careful consideration for others he 

 always, though so broad - minded himself, 

 strongly deprecated hurting opponents' or any- 

 one's prejudices and sentiments, particularly 

 about sacred things, and went out of his way 

 to avoid doing so. His opposition to racing 

 on Good Friday, and indeed in all Holy Week, 

 is well known. He was absolutely fearless in 

 standing up for justice and humanity. It was 

 well remarked in the fine appreciation of his 

 character which appeared in Horse and 

 Hound for 28th April 1906, that ''he would 

 always fight for the under-dog, so long as the 



