348 ASHGILL; OR, THE LIFE 



North of England Coursing Meeting at Eipon in the 

 year 1880. He was accompanied by his old friend, Mr. 

 Harry Bragg, so long identified with Ashgill. We 

 can well recollect when Harry won a bet of 6 to 4 

 laid against one of William Osborne's greyhounds 

 running at the meeting, how he good-humouredly 

 chuckled at "doing" us, as he put it, at "our own 

 game." 



Tapping William Osborne's memory, the following 

 scattered utterances were gathered in the course of an 

 hour's " crack " : 



" I can remember Alice Hawthorn well : 

 she was trained by Bob Heseltine at Hambleton. 

 And there was Bee's-wing, she was trained by 

 Bob Johnson. When we first came to Middle- 

 ham, Smith trained at Glasgow House; he left 

 there with the Duke of Cleveland's horses and 

 went to Raby for a few years, and he died here 

 at Middleham. The horses were all sold when 

 the Duke of Cleveland died. Matthew Dawson, 

 when he first came here, lived at Manor House, 

 where Peacock now trains. He was about a 

 year there, and he went to Brecongill with his 

 brother Thomas; and before that Joseph and 

 Thomas Dawson were at Brecongill. Matthew 

 Dawson went up to Scotland to his father's place 

 again, and then he came up with a horse called 

 Pathfinder, and won a match at Catterick for 

 200 against Mr. Meiklem's Remedy. Both 

 Joseph and John Dawson also trained for Lord 

 Glasgow : he was a queer 'un as ever I saw was 

 Lord Glasgow. He used to walk up and down 

 kicking up a terrible row. Old Watson Lonsdale 

 also trained for him. Lonsdale was a sort of 



