Besides now, what customs has he put down?
There was the good old custom of taking the linchpins out of the farmers' and bagmen's gigs at the fairs, and a cowardly, blackguard custom it was.

We all know what came of it, and no wonder the Doctor objected to it.

But come now, any of you, name a custom that he has put down." "The hounds," calls out a fifth-form boy, clad in a green cutaway with brass buttons and cord trousers, the leader of the sporting interest, and reputed a great rider and keen hand generally.
"Well, we had six or seven mangy harriers and beagles belonging to the house, I'll allow, and had had them for years, and that the Doctor put them down.

But what good ever came of them?
Only rows with all the keepers for ten miles round; and big-side hare-and-hounds is better fun ten times over.

What else ?" No answer.
"Well, I won't go on.