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pilot there again. Captain Ross rode Clinker 

 against Radical a great match, it would be from 

 Barkby Holt to Billesdon Coplow ; he didn't know 

 whether to take Clinker or a chesnut mare of Gene- 

 ral Peel's ; he was to have her for 500 guineas if 

 he liked ; so we had a trial over the ground, five on 

 us ; Captain Ross gets on the mare, and puts me 

 on Clinker ; I gave every one of them lOlbs., each 

 of them had thirteen stone, and I did 'em ; it was a 

 deal more than four miles, and we went it in 111 

 minutes ; going the pace, wasn't it, with all that 

 weight ? The Captain he was beat half a mile, and 

 Sir Harry, Mr. Holyoake, and Mr. Wormald, they 

 stopped at; Quenby Hall. It wasn't much of a 

 secret though, this trial; Melton soon knowed all 

 about it, and it altered the betting a bit ; I was pilot 

 in nearly all those steeple- chases you're reading out 

 of Bell's there ; they gave me sixty yards, and I 

 was to let the horses come no nearer me than that, 

 and I never did -, I knocked down a precious sight of 

 fences for them, but I was never down myself." 



This Marigold, I must tell you about her I 

 have it all in print here. You see, Mr. Coke what 

 howdacious men to ride he and Sir James Musgrave 

 were to be sure ! he told me, I must always be 

 with hounds where they went, I must go, if it 

 killed the horse ; so this Marigold, I sent her at a 

 hedge ; when I was in the air, I sees my danger ; 

 Frightened? God bless you! I never was fright- 

 ened in my life; so I pulls her right back, just as 

 she touched the bank, and shot her hind legs right 

 under her ; we made three landings of it ; it was 

 as steep as a house side ; but you'll read all about 

 it there ; and mind you bring that bit of print back, 

 I wouldn't lose it for a little.* 



* To prevent the catastrophe so darkly hinted at by the Professor, 

 we reprint the extract. 



DANGEROUS HUNTING EXPLOIT. The following extraordinary 



