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admiring friends would not let him alone. "He's 

 beat Mr. Hill/' said one of them, as the vast crowd 

 closed in behind the twain from the distance, and 

 the roar of a hundred and fifty thousand iron lungs 

 rent the air. "Is y er beat ? is 'er beat ?" retorted 

 the little man, skipping frantically upwards, to obtain 

 a good line of sight ; "Ye mau'nt tell me ye mau'nt 

 tell me ; I know him better Job's a corning !" Sure 

 enough, Job was coming ; and then Bobby's yell of 

 " I 3 that's right ! Which wins now? Oh, my horse! 

 my horse ! " might have been heard to Bawtry, as he 

 dashed through the crowd, butting his way like a 

 bull, to get to his favourite's head. Voltigeur-spotted 

 handkerchiefs were waving everywhere; hats were 

 recklessly flung away into mid-air, as if their owners 

 intended to trust to a natural growth or a wig for life; 

 and it was all poor Leadbitter could do to keep order 

 among the countless enthusiasts, who would try to 

 wipe some of the sweat off the winner with their 

 handkerchiefs, and keep it as a toilet memento. 



After the Dutchman's defeat on the Friday, the 

 scene was quite different. The crowd seemed to be 

 paralyzed, and utterly unable to believe that such a 

 giant had fallen at last ; his backers wandered about, 

 as pale and silent as marble statues, and Marlow 

 stood near the weighing-house in a flood of tears, 

 with Lord Eglinton, as pale as ashes himself, kindly 

 trying to soothe him. The pace at which The Dutch- 

 man, after getting his pull, fairly flew over the hill, 

 was such as we have never seen, either before or 

 since; and the only animal that ever seemed to us 

 to go so fast was Officious, in the early part of an 

 Ascot Vase race. The Richmond men became quite 

 alive, as evening drew on, to the greatness of their 

 victory. Such a strange night of jollity was never 

 witnessed in Doncaster before, and the inns were 

 overflowing to the very kitchens. Strolling into one 

 of the latter about midnight, we espied a large group 



