OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 207 
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 754, 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 
earldom of Airth and Monteith seemed to die out with him.” 
