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Drayton tells us that the prize at the coursing meetings held on the Cotswolds in his day was a silver-studded collar. Shakespeare, in his Merry Wives of Windsor alludes to the coursing on "Cotsall." There is an excellent club at Cirencester. The hares in this district are remarkably big and strong-running.
"I tell you," I whispered, "this chap knows everything." Then aloud, "I say, Sir, if you wouldn't mind putting me on to something for the Cotsall Selling Plate. Simply," I added hastily, "in the national interest, of course. Keeping up the breed of horses." The inspector changed the subject again. "You were allocated one hundredweight of sugar, I believe, Ma'am," he said.
The inspector frowned and was going to make a note of this, so I tried to distract his attention. "Do you know," I said, "a short time ago people persisted in mistaking me for a brother of the Duke of Cotsall?" "Why?" he asked rather rudely. "Because of the strawberry mark on my upper lip. Ah, I think this is the orchard. There was a wealth of bloom here when I put in my application."
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