10 ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



Only a few yards away from " The Angel of Mercy/* 

 a granite cross rears itself, bearing the legend : 



IN MEMORY OF 



GEORGE ABDALE, 



LATE OF ASKE, RICHMOND, YORKSHIRE, 



WHO DIED UTII JULY, 1859; 



ALSO OF 



SARAH, His WIFE, 



ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE 



JOHN HOWE OSBORNE, 



OF ASHGILL, 



WHO DIED 28-rii MARCH, 1895, 

 AGED 64. 



Again the Past is stirred up. Giant figures of 

 Fandango, of Vedette, trained by Abdale, peer through 

 the camera obscura of memory. And what a kind, good 

 soul was Mrs. Abdale ! In the long years of her widow- 

 hood her strong, ineradicable instinct of sport was 

 evinced by her presence at York, Doncaster, Richmond, 

 Northallerton, nay, at almost every race gathering in 

 the Northern circuit. One wots of the good, kind soul 

 peace to her ashes! tendering a hint that Gloriation, 

 then trained by her brothers for Mr. R. C. Vyner, would 

 win the Cambridgeshire. She proved a prophetess of 

 verity. Nor was the tip without good results to the 

 chronicler's needy and impoverished exchequer at the 

 time. That was a memorable Cambridgeshire indeed! 

 For did not Walter Glover, then one of the Ashgill 

 "feathers," beat "Mr. John" himself on the mighty 

 Bendigo a case of the apprentice bettering the 

 master ? 



