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to be in the market. At one of these 

 Rumsey my friend and I had been 

 together; and here an incident occurred, 

 of a serio-ludicrous nature, which I can- 

 not help recording. After dining at the 

 ordinary with farmers, horsedealers, inn- 

 keepers, &c., &c., I proposed driving 

 to Stockbridge, that is, to the stables 

 of old John Day, grandfather of the 

 well-known trainer of this name the 

 place is now, I believe, called Danes- 

 bury as I had a horse there in training 

 that was about to run at our garrison 

 races. 



Accordingly, we started in the evening, 

 and, in passing through the water that 

 crosses the road at Somborne, over- 

 took two "gents," whom we remem- 

 bered to have seen, imbibing considerably 

 at the White Horse, at Rumsey. They 

 suddenly stopped to allow their horses 

 to drink. In passing, the step of my 



