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trousers. You can see it all for yourself very pretty 

 in Ruff's Guide, while I get a little mint for a lassie 

 there/ 5 



And we saw it, sure enough : " Paisley, Octo- 

 ber 9th, 1851; Paisley, August 6th, 1852; and 

 Stirling, ^September 2nd, 1852," when the horse was 

 ten and eleven years old. We read the name of 

 "Mr. Murray, 9st. Illbs." attached to the last race; 

 and the Doctor seemed quite astonished. "I never 

 got to that weight in my life ; and I never declared 

 over weight. I was nearer eleven stone ; but they're 

 not very particular at Stirling. Then I bought 

 Lambton. The Cure filly from Lily Adey was second 

 to Heir of Linne for the Queen's Plate at Mussel- 

 burgh, and beat Yorkshire Grey. I ran Lambton two 

 or three times, but he was no good ; so I hacked him 

 and I have a filly by him. Then I had North Star by 

 Arundel, a rare one for speed, and the quickest at it, 

 but a bolter. It was at Paisley he bolted among the 

 crowd at the Grand Stand. I felt my feet rapping 

 on their heads for all the world just like when you 

 run your stick along an iron railing. He jumped at 

 a ditch ten or twelve feet deep, and got his fore feet 

 on the other bank, and played plunk with me to the 

 bottom among moss and peat. I heard them shout, 

 ' He's drowned !' I got out fast enough, and they 

 got ropes and pulled out North Star. Faith ! he 

 was a black horse when he came up. I never went 

 back to weigh, but I just bolted from Paisley by the 

 next train. There was a paragraph in the papers 



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