400 Saddle and Sirloin. 



with a splash, and ignominously crawls out up the 

 opposite bank. What comfort is it to him to be told 

 to " put on more powder" when all is over, and he is 

 wet up to his middle ? A policeman in a helmet has a 

 most tremendous reception when he jumps short, but 

 still there is not the fun there was when fewer people 

 came, and poor John Jackson, in his lusty manhood, 

 went striding and shouting with his short stick in his 

 hand, over the ditches, and when Jem Mace, or Joe 

 Goss, were putting on condition after that fashion. 



And so the courses go on, and at last the crowd, 

 some six or seven thousand strong, line the high em- 

 bankment on both sides of a field where Patent ran 

 one year. A sort of nervous thrill goes through them 

 when a beautiful worked course has been run in full 

 view between Jolly Green and Innkeeper. " One 

 more bye, and then the crack comes out," is the key 

 to it. They are so closely packed that it is difficult 

 as you stand to see right along the bank. In a minute 

 a roar is heard at the distance, and we know that the 

 black is coming. Nearer and nearer, and the shout is 

 taken up all along the line, as when the St. Leger 

 horses reach the Intake turn, and the last struggle 

 begins. Mr. Warwick tears along at full gallop on the 

 grey, almost level, and twenty yards to the right of 

 the hare, in order to be handy at the finish ; and then 



round, and seemed even better in her 1868-69 season. Lobelia was 

 good at all points, and never was greyhound more cut up than her in 

 her first course for the Waterloo Cup, with Lord Soulis, and yet she 

 went through the stake and won it. She was just too clever for Trova- 

 tore all that season ; but Master M'Grath was in turn too much for her 

 when they met in the Waterloo Cup. The Irish dog's pace and tact 

 were almost supernatural. He jumped a ditch into the road with Lobe- 

 lia ; the hare came short back over the hare-bridge, and the dog jumped 

 back, and nailed her as she came over, to use Mr. Warwick's words, 

 "just as a cat does a mouse." "It was," he added "the cleverest 

 thing I ever saw. " In the earlier part of the course Lobelia led on the 

 inside, he raced past her, and put the hare to her ; then he gave her 

 another go-by, and then came this remarkable kill. 



