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his sandwich, and had great difficulty as to the dis- 

 posal of his hands for posterity. He got them out 

 of sight at last, while Ben placed his right on his 

 shoulder. Will Smith looked the picture of calm 

 resignation. Turpin's air, on the contrary, was de- 

 cidedly jubilant ; he folded his arms like a ' Canning,' 

 and put his right foot forward. On the extreme right 

 were Carr and Collison. Will Channing's neat lissom 

 figure needed no pose but the natural one. The 

 photographer objected to his hands being behind 

 his back. Mr. Thomson was down upon him in an 

 instant : ' No, no ; that's the way he always stands — 

 as you were, Will '. Mr. Parrington was placed 

 on a chair next the table, which was radiant with 

 silver prizes, and two huntsmen (who might as well 

 have appeared in scarlet) were on each side of him. 

 The operator adjured them ' to look pleasant,' and 

 hit them off the first time." 



On 1 2th September the sale took place at 

 Sledmere, Sir Tatton Sykes'. There were herds 

 of thoroughbred horses in the park, five years old, 

 which had never been backed. After the sale I went 

 home with Francis Johnstone to a cottage near Hack- 

 ness, where his father lived. We had a hunt with 

 Lord Middleton's hounds — Ben Morgan, huntsman ; 

 and Johnstone mounted me on "Windfall," which 

 he had bought at my sale in 1855. 



On the 1 8th I went to Nuneaton by train and 

 got a trap to go to Hartshill. Going round a corner 

 there was a crashing sound, and I found myself sitting 

 on my portmanteau in the middle of the road — the 



