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important point arises — Will a roarer, assuming that 

 emigration shall have cured him of his infirmity, 

 beget roarers ? When Ormonde was brought from 

 Argentina to England his old friend and school- 

 master made a pilgrimage to Netley, and interviewed 

 him in his box. The meeting afforded lively satis- 

 faction to the visitor, who found his former comrade 

 apparently perfectly well and certainly well-looking. 

 Evidently the climate of Argentina had agreed with 

 him. One of the many accounts of the re-meeting 

 of Porter and Ormonde, which went the rounds of 

 the press, has probably by this time taken an im- 

 perishable place in collections of anecdotes compiled 

 to illustrate the docility and intelligence and grati- 

 tude, and so forth, of the noble animal who is so 

 very useful to man. It is a pity to have to knock 

 down a pretty piece of fiction with a hard fact, but 

 let truth prevail. Ormonde's reception of his former 

 trainer and constant friend was the reverse of con- 

 ciliatory. If the climate of the Argentine had pre- 

 served his good looks, his sojourn in that summer 

 land had somewhat soured his naturally sweet 

 temper. In short, he received his old trainer as if he 

 owed him a grudge, and was resolved to lose no 

 time in wiping out the debt. He 'went for' Porter 

 as soon as the latter entered the box. They met for 

 the last time at Goodwood, where Ormonde, at the 

 Duke of Richmond's stables, held a levde prior to 

 his deoarture, under new ownership (having been 

 re-sold to a syndicate) to his final exile in America. 



