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Peel, who smiled through a stream of tears which fell down his manly cheeks; and I well remember saying to him, in a joking style,' By Jove, Peel, you'll be sung when we're both run to earth.'
" As to John Peel's general character I can say little. He was of a very limited education beyond hunting. But no wile of a fox or hare could evade his scrutiny; and business of any shape was utterly neglected, often to cost far beyond the first loss. Indeed this neglect ex-tended to the paternal duties in his family. I believe he would not have left the drags of a fox on the impending death of a child, or any other earthly event. An excellent rider, I saw him once on a moor put up a fresh hare, and ride till he caught her with his whip. You may know that he was six feet and more, and of a form and gait quite surprising, but his face and head were somewhat insignificant. A clever sculptor told me that he once followed, admir-ing him, a whole market day before he dis-covered who he was."
" Tom Moody," generally attributed to Dib-din, but written by Andrew Cherry, the author the " Bay of Biscay," is another good song of this class, and so is the anonymous " Tom Pearce, or the Old Grey Mare."
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