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put me on the mattress. He twisted my leg 

 right round into a certain position, and gave it 

 a sudden jerk. He said, ' Did you feel any- 

 thing ? ' I replied, ' No, but I heard it ; I heard 

 something snapping.' He says, ' Now, keep quiet 

 for nine days, and then you can go and knock 

 about as much as you like.' I did as he said, 

 and, just nine days after, the hounds met at 

 Leyburn, and I rode my old horse in a good 

 run that day, though I still felt pain in the spot. 

 But I felt better for it the next day, after which 

 I soon got the muscles into play, and I felt no ill 

 effects. I fancy ' Dr.' Hutton cured me. He was 

 a marvellous man. We had a horse or tw^o of 

 his in training." 

 Lady Castlereagh injured herself in the Manchester 

 Cup in 1886, and until the July of 1887 the mare was 

 more or less a cripple. " Paddy " Drislane, her trainer, 

 consulted all the veterinary surgeons in the country- 

 side, but without any good result. As a last resort he 

 went to " Doctor " R. H. Hutton, the mare accom- 

 panying him to London. This was on Friday, 1st July, 

 1887. On the Saturday following, " Dr." Hutton saw 

 the mare. He at once discovered the seat of the injury 

 to lie at the stifle joint, and in the twinkling of an eye 

 he replaced the dislocated part. Drislane brought the 

 mare back through London, and as she came along the 

 streets she lashed out freely with both hind legs, a caper 

 in which she had not indulged since her accident in the 

 Manchester November Cup of 1886, above alluded to. 

 Drislane declared that if " Dr." Hutton had lived in 

 the beginning of the century he would have been burnt 

 as a witch. " Dr." Hutton came to a sad end. He died 

 on Saturday evening, 16th July, 1887, at University 



