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tion of a whip to Professor Galvayne. This whip, he 

 added, went to prove, if any proof was necessary, the 

 success which the Professor had achieved in his attempt, 

 which he hoped was not in vain, to teach some of them. 

 It was from a Yorkshire gentleman, T. F. Riley, Esq., 

 of Elwood Hall, whose letter his lordship had in his 

 pocket. Mr. Riley stated in this letter that the whip was 

 in recognition of Professor Galvayne's brilliant services 

 in successfully attempting the breaking of a very wild 

 and unbroken seven-year-old mare, half-bred. Mr. 

 Riley wished it to be known that he himself was origin- 

 ally quite a sceptic as to the Professor's abilities or his 

 power of success, but he sent this whip in recognition of 

 his having now become a complete convert to the Gal- 

 vayne system, and he believed in its success. His lord- 

 ship went on to say that he was present a week ago upon 

 the occasion of Professor Galvayne's introduction to 

 Newton-Stewart, and he then told them that when he 

 started in Great Britain he chose Yorkshire because 

 there he understood they were the most hard-headed 

 set of men in Great Britain. He supplemented that 

 by adding that when he came to Scotland he found 

 something harder still. (Laughter.) Well, one of these 

 hard-headed gentlemen had acknowledged that he was 

 completely wrong himself, and that Professor Galvayne 

 was entirely in the right, having seen what he could do. 

 (Applause.) His lordship had a blood mare, which had 

 been in his possession for seven or eight years, and 



