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lived to realize above one hundred thousand
pounds. ---- In youth he had been given over for a
consumption, so that he had no constitution, and
no passions --- He was timid, shy, and diffident in
the extreme: of a thin spare habit of body, and
without a friend upon earth ----The hoarding up
and the counting his money formed the greatest joy.
Next to that was partridge setting; at which he
was so great an adept, and game was then so plentiful,
that he has been known to take five hundred
brace of birds in one season! - But he lived upon
partridges, he and his whole household, consisting
of one man and two maids. ---- What they could
not eat, he turned loose again, as he never gave
any thing away to his neighbours. ---- Sr Harvey
and his man never missed a day, during the partridge
season, if the weather was tolerable; and
his breed of dogs being remarkably good, In seldom
failed taking great quantities of game.
At times he wore a black velvet cap much over his face; a worn out full-dressed suit of cloaths, and an old great coat, with worsted stockings drawn up over his knees ----he rode a thin thoroughbred horse, and the horse and his rider both looked as if a gust of wind would have blown then a way together ---- When the weather was not fine enough to tempt him abroad, he would walk backwards and forwards in his old hall, to save the expense of fire. ---- If a farmer in his neighbourhood came in on business, he would strike a light in a tinder-box that he kept by him, and putting one single stick
