FIFTY YEARS OF A SHOWMAN'S LIFE 



last year and I would send him down to you. 

 They ought not to go more than nine miles a day, 

 so that I suppose it will take 16 days at least 

 to get them home, as one or two days rest must 

 be allowed. They must keep the North Road 

 to Bawtrey and there ask the way, which is along 

 the Gainsborough Road ; but if you will let me 

 know when they are to get there I will have a man 

 and myself also to meet them. 



" Believe me, my dear sir, 



" Yours most truly, 



" ALTHORP." 



A very distinctive personality known in every 

 horse-ring in the kingdom was Henry Fownes 

 Luttrell, of Badgworth Court, in the county of 

 Somerset or " the Colonel," as he was universally 

 designated, as if there were but one colonel in the 

 world. What he didn't know about horses was, 

 by common agreement, not worth knowing. He 

 had a reputation in this respect not only through- 

 out the Western Counties, but wherever horse 

 experts were gathered together, which is equivalent 

 to saying that he was known in many companies 

 of Englishmen. There was hardly a single Society 

 offering prizes for horses, from one end of the 

 kingdom to the other, for whom, at some time or 

 another, he had not judged, and, as the embodi- 

 ment of all wisdom upon equine matters, he 

 naturally became, and remained for many years 

 in fact, until ill-health compelled his resignation 

 the Bath and West Society's senior horse steward ; 

 hence I had every opportunity of seeing a good 

 deal of him. It did not take anyone long to 



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