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CHAPTER IV. 



_\IR. KIRBY AND THE FOREIGNERS. 



" Loud roar the dismal breakers, 



Loud shrieks the wild sea-gull, 

 Round barks with golden cargoes 



Of thorough-breds from Hull ; 

 High-blowers, cracks, and weedy ones, 



As slow as any man, 

 From whose pyramids of forfeits 



Their owners cut and ran." 



rOKEIGNERS do very little in the way of young 

 blood stock, but confine their attention almost 

 entirely to mares and sires. They are much more 

 particular about blood than they used to be; and 

 taking them as a nation, the Germans are most kno vy- 

 ing on the points of a horse, and as the stud-grooms 

 phrase it, te ivant no telling" Baron de Maltzhan, of 

 Yollrathsrah, in Mecklenburg, has about 160 brood 

 mares, including half-breds, and he is quite as learned 

 on stud pedigrees as ever Person was in Greek roots. 

 Count Wladimir Baworioski, of Polish Gallicia, has 

 also an enormous stud ; and Count Hahn, of Schlop 

 Basedow, Mecklenburg- Schwerin, who first sent Tur- 

 nus to England, has imported some of our choicest 

 stock, among which Grey Momus, Figaro, and Black 

 Drop were not the foremost. Baron de Biel, of Zie- 

 row, Mecklenburg- Schwerin, is also a great stud- 

 owner, and he may be said to have been the original 

 Jenner who inoculated the dwellers in Fatherland 

 with such a yearning for our thorongh-breds. One 



