3o8 Dick Pa'mter. 



and were considered to be second to none in those 

 days. Mr. Henry Lambton much hked the 

 horses which he obtained from Dick out of South 

 Wales and Shropshire. Colonel Gipps, also a 

 hard man, bought many horses of Dick, who 

 always called him '' Mr. Colonel Gipps." 



On one occasion Dick showed me what he 

 called " A funny 'oss," and of which he said, 

 " He can go as far in an hour as will take him all 

 day to come back ! " 



'•What are you going to do with him?" I 

 laughingly asked. 



" I'm beggared if I knows ! " was the character- 

 istic reply. 



Dick would persist in saying '' Indi^gestion," 

 which very much disturbed his two patrons before- 

 mentioned, who used very frequently to walk down 

 to see Dick after breakfast. On one such occasion 

 another brother of Dick's, named George, who 

 worked for him, was passing with a server of oats. 

 One of the visitors took a handful of them, and, 

 calling Dick's attention, asked him which horse 

 they were for ; and, on hearing, he said : " If you 

 put some chaff into them he will di-gest them 

 better." 



" I hope to goodness he won't," cried Dick, 

 " he cost eighty guineas ! " The gentleman, 



