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return with him. Giving the guard 10s. or a 

 sovereign, according to the distance, he would 

 desire him to keep a coupee locked, and he insisted 

 that I should travel with him, when every detail 

 connected with his enormous racing establishment 

 was discussed. After that, he would talk upon 

 various subjects, many of a private and family 

 nature, upon which I could hardly have expected 

 him to speak to me. He would relate anecdotes 

 about his father and brothers, their pursuits, 

 habits, and peculiarities. Of his mother and 

 sisters he always spoke in the most affectionate 

 terms ; and when any question of expense arose he 

 would often remark, " Never mind the money ; 

 my mother will let me have any amount." 



His prediction as to the great revolution the 

 construction of railways would effect in racing and 

 other interests has been fully realised, and he 

 encouraged railways in every way. He was a 

 considerable shareholder in the London and Bir- 

 mingham line, as he informed me once when 

 travelling upon it ; at the same time expatiating 

 upon the immense advantages that railways had 

 conferred on mankind, and upon the addition to 

 the lives . of individuals made by them, in conse- 

 quence of their having shortened the hours of 

 travel. 



When the Chichester Old Bank stopped pay- 

 ment in 1842, my father was a creditor for the 

 amount of 3600, which was not only a very 



