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hanging her, because she could no longer * take the 

 lead and keep it.' She arrived there on a Sunday, 

 and remained a[)parentl3^ satisfied with her new 

 (Quarters, until Tuesday afternoon, when she ab- 

 sconded, and, on the following Friday, made her 

 appearance at home, so completely exhausted that 

 she had not strength left to lap a little milk. The 

 distance is not very great (about forty-two miles) 

 but what rendered it very extraordinary, was her 

 coming through such a place as London, and of 

 course over one of the three bridges, usually so crow- 

 ded, excepting for three or four hours in the middle of 

 the night, particularly as she had never been even 

 used to a country town, but first saw^ light, and 

 passed the whole of her life, at a lone insulated house. 

 She was a white bitch, excepting her ears, which 

 were yellow, and remarkably fond of being noticed, 

 so that it is wonderful she escaped being taken up 

 in London, had she come through in the day-time; 

 it is, therefore, probable that she passed through in 

 the night. 



In the month of December, 1800, a match was 

 to have been run over Doncaster course for one 

 hundred guineas, but one of the horses having been 

 drawn, a mare started alone, that by running the 

 ground she might insure the wager; when having 

 run about one mile of the four, she was accompanied 

 by a greyhound bitch, who joined her from the side 

 of the course, and emulatively entering into the 

 competition, continued to race with the mare the 

 other three miles, keeping nearly head and head, 

 affording an excellent treat to the field, by tlie ener- 

 getic exertions of each. At passing the distance-post 

 five to four was betted in favour of the greyhound; 

 when parallel with the stand, it was even betting, 

 and any person mifjht have taken his choice for five 

 or ten ; the mare, however, had the advantage by a 

 head at the termination. 



