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quite an oration or rather resume of the year, and concluded 

 with a special eulogium of those who 'have died since our last 

 anniversary.' Not infrequently he killed one or two before 

 their time, perhaps more from a little dry humor than by mis- 

 take; and then he begged their pardon and said, 'it did'nt matter 

 much.' For some time before his death he had suffered slightly 

 from paralysis; but a kick from a pony produced a crisis, and 

 two days after when they went to awake him on the May morn- 

 ing of '54, he was found dead in bed. He lies in the cemetery 

 of Ury, about a mile from his old home — ^the trainer of pugilists 

 with the gentle apologist for Quakers — and his claim to the 

 earl-dom of Airth and Monteith seemed to die out with him." 



