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CHAPTER XXIII ..... '238 



Northallerton Sessions "Skiddy" Judging Terriers at 

 the Crystal Palace Tom Fitzwilliam Curiosities of the 

 N.E. Circuit Samuel Danks Waddy Mathew Dawson 

 and Lord Falmouth at Newmarket Silvio's Great Trial 

 Glorious Year for Blair Athol Cobham Stud in excelsis 

 Buying Mares from John Porter Lured to Leeds Left 

 at Leeds Cobham neglected Money Losses Trouble 

 brewing Ten per Cent. Dividend but no Money' Russo- 

 Turkish War Disraeli Position of the Stud Company 

 Ltd. 



CHAPTER XXIV . . . . .251 



A General Meeting of the Stud Company Ltd. My Effort 

 to save the Company Frustrated Disastrous Change of 

 Auctioneer Liquidation Final Sale All Debts paid 

 Shareholders get Nothing Work at the Bar The Thirsk 

 Election Petition How I was instructed The Teetotal 

 Witness and the "Old Jamaica "Evidence of Tom 

 Palliser His Wrath against Mr Justice Denman "A 

 singularly pure Election " Origin of the Fox-terrier Club 

 Judging at Nottingham Difficulties accumulate 



CHAPTER XXV . . . . .262 



Fresh Work The Staff Corps and Indian Army Fund 

 Blair Athol (the book) The Whitehall Review Edward 

 Legge My First Mentor in Journalism I attract 

 Willoughby May cock Death of Lord Beaconsfield 

 Gladstonian Disasters Mrs Langtry Belt v. Lawes 

 Great Scene in Court -I make Belt's Acquaintance 

 Friends from that Day Iroquois and Pincus End of the 

 old Whitehall Review I start St Stephen's Review 



CHAPTER XXVI . . . . .272 



St Stephen's Review A Desperate Adventure Never sub- 

 sidised by the Party Less than ^500 Capital Mr 

 Grantham, Q.C., a Director Photographs reproduced in 

 Germany -Lord Marcus Beresford and Mr George Lamb- 

 ton Others who wrote Mr Gladstone advertises us 

 How we followed this up Mr Gladstone's \oo Mr 

 Joseph Chamberlain's ^250 Beauty Competition A 

 Libellous Sub-EditorHe libels my Friend, Edward 

 Legge Mr Grantham advises We lose heavily First 

 Meeting with Phil May 



CHAPTER XXVII . . . . .285 



Tom Merry's Cartoons The Rake's Progress Lord 

 Salisbury's Appreciation St Stephen's Saturnalia Great 



