I30 CHASING AND RACING 



The said incidents have been set forth chiefly in 

 The Sporting Life and The Sunday Sportsman, Perhaps 

 they have been read, with ephemeral interest, by the 

 public ; perhaps they have been merely skimmed. 

 In any case the journals would be almost invariably 

 cast aside, and these articles clean forgotten. But 

 their inclusion, in part, in the present volume might 

 render them permanent publicity. So now I put to 

 myself the original proposition. " Those in favour 

 thereof, please signify the same in the usual manner. 

 On the contrary } Carried, nem con,"** 



So off I go again ! 



Hark back to Weasel ! 



It was not long before I had cheery news from 

 James Prince concerning the progress of my new 

 purchase. He had acquitted himself right nobly in a 

 trial with one Hugger Mugger, belonging to Harry 

 Roberts (H. R. Johnson), who, with his friend and 

 confederate Harry Heasman, were stout supporters of 

 the " Princely '* establishment at Lewes. I may here 

 place on record that these two were good sportsmen, 

 ever ready to lend me a trial horse, or to " give me the 

 ofiice ** when one of theirs was the goods. 



Prince advised the entry of Weasel in ** a seller '* 

 at Windsor, and so it happened that one fine afternoon 

 found me in the paddock on the Royal Meads, arrayed 

 in the new colours which I had adopted — " Eau dc nil 

 (satin) jacket. Mousse green (velvet) cap, and braid '' — 

 having weighed out for Weasel, and now awaiting the 



