A NOTICE OF NIMROD. 



going about in the summer, it is no wonder that 

 agriculture did not pay ; and the death of Mr. 

 Pittman, the proprietor of the " Sporting Magazine," 

 in December, 1827, tended to bring matters to a 

 crisis. The two had got on capitally together, and 

 Pittman played his trump-card with great spirit, 

 keeping him a good stud of horses, and otherwise 

 behaving very handsomely. A rupture, however, 

 soon followed on his decease, and in two years' time 

 Nimrod was off the "Magazine;" his contributions 

 closing with the "German Tour," which he made in 

 company with Mr. Richard Tattersall and his son. 

 Although fifty years of age, he wasted from eleven 

 stone seven to ten stone three pounds, in order to 

 ride for the Gold Cup at Dobberan, which he won 

 on rather an awkward-tempered horse called Wild- 

 fire. Nimrod presented the Cup in his cap and 

 jacket to the Grand-Duchess of Mecklenburg when 

 he was honoured with an invitation to dinner, and 

 before he left the country a facsimile of the Cup for 

 which he had ridden the winner was sent to him. 

 But the best of all the Tours was that through York- 

 shire, — there was so much fresh ground to break up, 

 such a deal of "character" to study, and so many 

 good stories to tell. When a ship reached Calcutta, 



