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in cover. Racing men will remember that Miss Elis 

 had a trick of this kind when she was running. Com- 

 ing round the clump in the Goodwood Stakes, some 

 one near Lord George, in the Stand, said " Look ! 

 she's beat ; her tail's going like a pump handle ! " and 

 his lordship retorted, with his cold smile " Yes, sir ; 

 and it will pump you dry ! " Corporal always went 

 along with his tongue hanging out, and as he was a 

 running jumper, he gave his rider a succession of most 

 fearful falls, which would have been no joke to any 

 man, much less to one who had been so crippled by 

 his boiler accident. 



Maiden was born within halloo of Barrow Church- 

 yard, in Shropshire, a few years after the King of 

 Whips* was buried there. " Verily," as Cecil says. 

 " good sportsmen are indigenous to the soil ; no 

 sooner is one run to ground than another comes 

 forth." In one sense of the word, he has one 

 " leg in the grave ;" and as that deceased member's 

 successor has become as famous as the late Marquis 

 of Anglesey's, we may be excused dwelling a little 

 on its history. The accident took place at the 

 North Warwickshire kennels in 1829. He was all 

 dressed on that unhappy day to go to Lichfield 

 races, and had walked down before starting to 

 give some directions to his boiler. The latter was 

 not quite up to his work, and on mounting the 

 copper to give some directions, Joe slipped in with 

 both legs. He was out again in an instant, and 

 felt it so little at first, that he quite expected to 

 go on to the races when he had changed his dress. 

 Some injudicious application at the spur of the 

 moment to the left leg, which was most injured, 

 nearly drove him distracted ; and when his wife ar- 

 rived, and the stocking was removed, it literally 



* Tom Moody. 



