DUKE OF GRAFTON.

The late duke, when hunting, was thrown into a ditch, at the same time a

young curate called out, "_Lie still, my lord_," leaped over him, and

continued the chase. Such apparent want of feeling, might be presumed,

was properly resented. But on being helped out by his attendants, his

grace said, "_that man shall have the first good living that falls to my

disposal, had he stopped to have taken care of me I would never have

given him any thing:_" his grace being delighted with an ardour similar

to his own, or with a spirit that would not stoop to flatter.

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