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she-goes. At the close of 1807 he left the Turf, but 

 luck attended him in his last 500 gs. matches,, as his 

 opponent's horse (Warrior) broke down while win- 

 ning in the first, and Lord Darlington paid to him 

 with Trafalgar (who had beaten Mr. Watt's Shuttle- 

 cock in a 1,000 gs. match that year) in the second. 

 He had, however, long passed his meridian, when he 

 kept open house for a fortnight at Blyth Hall, on the 

 occasion of the Prince of Wales' and the Duke of 

 Clarence's Yorkshire visit, in 1806. Even then the 

 title-deeds had departed from him, in spite of San- 

 cho's and Staveley's St. Leger victories in the two 

 preceding years, and he only kept possession of the 

 Hall by virtue of a friendly stipulation to that effect. 

 It was a " finish" in every sense of the word, and the 

 Prince was said to be the only one who walked up to 

 bed without help each night. The little table on 

 which the two flirted, long and deeply, with the 

 elephant's tooth, is still preserved as a relic in Don- 

 caster; and when this melancholy wake of his de- 

 parted treasure had ceased, Hellish turned his back on 

 Blyth, and resided, whenever he was in the country, 

 at Hodsack Priory, a portion of his estate which was 

 entailed. Shortly afterwards he married, and devoted 

 himself principally to farming and shorthorns a 

 pursuit in which the late Charles Champion, of Blyth. 

 a very famous breeder, was his principal mentor. 

 Mr. Rudd, the vicar of HoJsack, was also very inti- 

 mate with him, and, as far as the eye of man could 

 scan him, no one tried more earnestly or prayerfully 

 to atone in maturer years for the follies of his spring. 

 His hour-glass had, however, nearly run out, and he 

 died in 1818 of pulmonary consumption, when he 

 had barely reached his thirty-sixth birthday. 



