48 The Post and the Paddock, 



about Staley Bridge Radicals with the then Lord 

 Stanley, or offered to " lay agin Plenipo." 



The two Elands, Joe and "Facetious Jemmy," 

 were equally odd hands. Epsom had fired up the 

 latter's desire to come on to the Turf, and he de- 

 scended from his coachman's box at Hedley for that 

 purpose, and sported his "noble lord" hat, white 

 cords, deep bass voice, and vulgar dialect on it for 

 the first time about 1812. He did not trouble it 

 much after he " dropped his sugar" on Shillelah, 

 though that contretemps did not completely knock him 

 out of time. His acute rough expressions, such as 

 "niver coomed a-nigh" and so on, as well as his 

 long nose and white flabby cheeks, made him a 

 man of mark even before he got enough, by laying 

 all round, to set up a mansion in Piccadilly. Joe, his 

 brother, had originally been a postboy, and rose from 

 thence to be a stable-keeper in Great Wardour- 

 street ; but the great hit of his life was his successful 

 farming of turnpike-gates, at which he was supposed 

 to have made about 25,ooo/. " Ludlow Bond" was 

 not so coarse in his style as this/^r nobile fratrum, 

 but ambitious and vain to the last degree. It was the 

 knowledge of this latter quality on the part of Ludlow's 

 real owners, " The Yorkshire Blacksmith and Co.," 

 which induced them to put him forward as the osten- 

 sible owner, as no one would back a horse which was 

 known to be theirs. Bond liked the notoriety which 

 this nominal ownership conferred on him, and was no 

 doubt a mere puppet, without exactly knowing who 

 pulled the strings. Discreditable as the affair was, he 

 always gloried in it ; in fact, he was so determined 

 not to let the memory of it die out, that he christened 

 a yearling which he bought from the Duke of Grafton, 

 "Ludlow Junior." At times he appeared on the 

 Heath with a grey hack, and went by the nickname of 

 "Death on the Pale Horse;" and, shortly after the 

 Doncaster outburst, he came on in a handsome 



