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Hughes from his place in St. George's Fields, a friend, 

 to whom he was in the habit of lending horses to ride, 

 called to beg for a mount, and, the master being away, 

 took the first that came, a horse which went very well 

 to Croydon and back, only just once walking, tail first, 

 into a public-house on the road, but displaying no 

 other eccentricity. On arriving at the circus, how- 

 ever, the rider encountered Mr. Hughes, who had 

 returned home, and who greeted him with a horror- 

 stricken face and a cry of ' My God ! you've been out 

 on Chillaby ! ' which is said to have so affected the 

 friend that he had to be put to bed and supplied with 

 ' strong waters ' before he could be brought round. 

 Yet even Chillaby, like so many 'savages,' had his 

 gentle friend, in the shape of a ' lamb which would 

 butt flies off the horse's shoulder,' and which the 

 horse would not attempt to injure. It is curious that 

 neither in the old nor in the new edition of the first 

 (or any other) volume of the ' Stud Book ' is this 

 Chillaby discriminated from King William the Third's, 

 though progeny of his (not including Emetic, so that 

 he may have been half-bred, notwithstanding the 

 statement of his parentage, Chillaby and a Herod 

 mare, ? h. b., in the ' Calendar ') is registered (for in- 

 stance, Viscount, alias Young Chillaby) in the ' Stud 

 Book,' which ought not to be if Chillaby were regarded 

 as no genuine Arabian. 



Mr. Batson deserves further mention as the gentle- 

 man who last challenged for the Eclipse Foot, and, 



