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him "/'// take you'' He, of course, took no notice of 

 the impertinence, and booked the bet with some 

 one else, and lost it. To his surprise the tout came 

 up, and claimed the money, and not satisfied with the 

 curt disclaimer, kept dunning " Old England," at 

 intervals, during the meeting. At last, Mr. Gully told 

 him to come to his rooms after the races, and he 

 would settle with him ; and taking him by the collar 

 when he arrived, he used his dog-whip with such 

 stinging effect on his shoulders that he howled out 

 promises of the most hearty repentance, and went to 

 another bet-market in future. However, the story got 

 wind, and the tout finding that he was universally 

 called " Young Gully," put a good face on his chasten- 

 ing, and ever after reverentially alluded to the great 

 book-maker as " my father? Once, in the May of '50 

 he wandered down to Danebury, where there was a 

 solemn Derby council of war, to tout the horses at 

 exercise ; and poor Walter Day remembered how he 

 roared to him, " Go and tell my father there, that he 

 needn't keep looking at Pits ford with Mr. Hill ; 

 Voltigeur will be first, and the chestnut will beat the 

 rest" 



Hunting always had a charm for him, and during 

 " The Squire's" mastership he spent a great deal of time 

 with him at Quorn. His observation of everything, 

 Furrier and Vanquisher included, in. the field or on 

 the flags, was so keen, that if he had been obliged to 

 take the horn for a season, he would have given a 

 very good account of his foxes. He was only four or 

 five years older, but a great Mentor to " the Squire" 

 on the subject of condition, and he was so vexed at 

 seeing " The Little Wonder" insist upon riding back 

 into the town after his Newmarket match against 

 time, that he told him he deserved a whip across his 

 back, for trifling with his constitution in that way. 

 " That 'ere friendly expression," as a jack-tar would 

 have termed it, provec. their intimacy ; but a St. Leger 



