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those present at the hunt except Dr. Pringle himself, Henry 

 Hayter, son of Lieut. Hayter, R.N., and Mr. Rowe Buck; 

 Henry Hayter, because he brought a yelping mongrel that 

 many a time we thought was a means of alarming and driving 

 away the animal we were seeking ; and I recollect Rowe Buck 

 because, while waiting for dinner to be served, he proposed we 

 should all discharge our guns before going into the house, and 

 he stuck up a silver half-dollar, and offered to give it as a prize 

 to whoever could knock it down at the distance marked out. 

 Many of the party had rifles, one or two shot guns loaded with 

 ball, and each fired in turn without hitting so small an object. 

 I came last. I had a capital English made double-barrel, that 

 had often served me well in similar trials of skill, and I 

 succeeded in hitting and knocking down the piece of money 

 without difficulty, but Rowe Buck objected to giving it on the 

 flimsy excuse that my gun must have been loaded with shot, 

 and because, forsooth, all the others had failed. To convince 

 him, I dared him to put it up again, and, on his declining to do 

 so, I set up in the same place a piece of white china of the same 

 size, which I smashed to pieces with the bullet of the other 

 barrel. 



This circumstance and Henry Hayter's little dog, perhaps, 

 , is what has fastened these two names upon my memory. 



Every one of that jolly party, I believe, are dead, except 

 Rowe Buck and myself, and he is well advanced in years, but 

 he may possibly remember the occasion of the hunt, if any 

 corroboration of this story is required. Mrs. Pringle, too, wife 

 of Dr. Pringle, and sister of Rowe Buck, is also still alive. 



Soon after the murder of Captain Ussher at Queenston, 

 and the blowing up of Brock's Monument by the notorious 

 Benjamin Lett, a descent was made in the neighborhood of 

 Cobourg by a large party of marauders for the purpose of 

 murder and plunder, led by this celebrated outlaw. I was 

 invited to join an expedition sent to arrest them, and we 

 succeeded in capturing the whole lot except Lett, who escaped. 



It was in one of the night excursions, despatched every 

 evening for a long time afterwards, in the endeavour to take 

 this dreaded maurauder, that returning one morning, as we 



