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in full clerical costume, though he was a sad sloven, 

 and cared very little for his cloth, in either sense 

 of the word. He was perpetually to be seen riding 

 his dearly beloved Phantom in a hood in Hyde Park, 

 and at one time he had this horse and three other 

 sires in his Pimlico stables. No man had a happier 

 knack of taming them, a talent about which he was 

 remarkably proud and mysterious ; and few formed 

 better opinions of running than he did, when he drew 

 up his old gig by the side of the cords at Newmarket. 

 He perpetually bought a sire out of the studs when 

 he could get them cheap at the October meetings, 

 and might be seen at the close of the races driving 

 down the High-street with his new purchase tied 

 behind him. In one of these strange processions,, 

 Canterbury, whom he purchased from Lord Gros- 

 venor, especially figured ; but its new owner had 

 long ceased to have any terror of the Archbishop 

 before his eyes. He used to say that the Archbishop 

 might pluck off his gown, but he couldn't pluck out 

 his heart for TattersalFs ; and he was never more in 

 his glory than when he stood there, clinging on to 

 the tail of Vandyke junior, and holding forth to the 

 gazers on the wondrous change in his temper, under 

 his pastoral care. 



