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erected on Cottington Hill; Roberts, of St. James's 

 Hall, London, did the catering, and did it well, too ; 

 and upwards of a thousand people sat down. We 

 had the usual grand display of fireworks, provided 

 by one Corneby, a skilful local pyrotechnist, and an 

 unusual flight of balloons, seeing that each of them 

 carried the colours of the Derby and Oaks winner. 

 I may remark that the poor of Kingsclere were not 

 forgotten on that occasion, or the inmates of the 

 workhouse, nor have they ever been. They have 

 always had a substantial dinner given to them to 

 commemorate our victories, and we have had a few. 

 I am not sure whether it is worth mentioning, but if 

 it is, this is as appropriate a place as any to mention 

 it, when, as it were, we are leaving the Downs to 

 continue my disclosures indoors, but I once lost a 

 purse when I was out with the horses, and although 

 I hunted everywhere in my tracks for the missing 

 treasure I gave it up as utterly gone. Nevertheless 

 I offered a sovereign reward to any of the boys 

 who might chance upon it. Upwards of two years 

 elapsed when the purse (which, by the way, con- 

 tained the sum of 2/. 18^. and some private memo- 

 randa) was discovered by a boy just as he was 

 pulling up after a canter. We had been over the 

 spot almost daily for the period named. Lady 

 Chelsea lost a ring off her finger when she was on 

 the Downs, and of course never expected to see it 

 again. But she did. Mr. Kingsmill, in walking 

 from Sydmonton Court, his residence, some months 

 afterwards, found the ring and restored it to the 



