LIFE OF MYTTON. 



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As a pendant to the above, I may here introduce 

 the following tickler that he wrote to the Editor of 

 the "Old Sporting Magazine" in the spring of 1831, 

 in answer to some observations that had been made 

 about Mr. Beardsworth and the horse Birmingham. 



"GUY STAKES AT WARWICK. 



" Sir, 



" If there is one thing more absolutely requisite 

 than another in a letter which »s intended for the 

 public eye, it is accuracy ; or, to speak more plainly, 

 Truth — a qualification that your Correspondent, The 

 Young Forester, has in your Magazine of this 

 month (February) unhappily overlooked. 



"In page 247 he says, 'The stake at Warwick 

 has been awarded to the owner of Cetus, who was 

 second, in consequence of the present owner of Bir- 

 mingham having refused to pay some paltry 25/, for- 



the rapidity with which he used his pen on all common occasions : — 



