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ing it suddenly embodied in flesh and blood had quite 

 overcome her. Sir Tatton was peculiarly tenacious 

 of old friendships, and kept them in constant repair, 

 and he would just as soon have thought of omitting 

 this Camberwell visit to the great " Master of the 

 Horse," or his Christmas present of game to Sam 

 Day and other old racing friends, as he would have 

 left York races without calling on Mr. Kirby, when he 

 saw him under the portico of the Stand no more. He 

 often reminded Mr. Gully that they were born on the 

 same day, " but eleven years apart, Sir Tatton," as 

 " King John " used to reply ; and as for Mr. Joe 

 Whittaker's buff-waistcoat, he thought that he had 

 known it at Doncaster as long as the Stand itself. 

 Since his eyesight became worse, he did not photo- 

 graph so well, and his face seemed to fall away. 



The last he sat, or rather stood for, was that small 

 group of himself, Sir George Cholmley, and Snarry 

 looking at Fandango, in " Scott and Sebright." The 

 sight of one eye was quite gone for some years before 

 his death ; but impaired as the other was, it grew no 

 worse. Mr. Phillips thought it too acute on that me- 

 morable day of '62, when he arrived with Prince Cari- 

 gnan and Count Cigala (who bore the King of Italy's 

 likeness as a present from His Majesty), and found 

 himself dropped upon in the treasonable act of slip- 

 ping a little water into the ale, in which the health of 

 the King's second batch of purchases was to be 

 drunk. The King got six Pyrrhus mares among his 

 eight, and a hamper of that Sledmere ale, whose 

 potency his London commissioner had so much 

 dreaded, accompanied the second lot. 



It was Sir Tatton's habit to get up at half-past 

 five in the winter, shave himself in cold water, and 

 wash his head. He would then go into the library, 

 on the side of the house looking out into the park, 

 and walk in his dressing-gown, slippers, and breeches. 

 The library is ninety feet in length, and he used to 



