162 SAM DARLING'S REMINISCENCES 



When I was over in Ireland on a visit to the 

 stud, I said to Mike Burns (Mr. Gubbins's stud 



Mr.Gubbins's grOOm), 



stud groom " j^jjQ^e^ j'j^ y^jy pleased you sent us 

 over some good horses to England." 



" Yes, he said, " there are a lot of good horses 

 go over to you from Ireland ; but you have to come 

 to Ireland for your generals as well as your horses." 

 This was at the time of the Boer War, when Generals 

 Roberts, Kitchener, etc., were to the fore. 



Two gentlemen of enormous proportions, one of 

 whom I trained for, and his brother-in-law, took 



Another ^ hansom cab from Waterloo to the 



true story Raleigh Club, Regent Street. When 



they paid their fare the cabby opened out his hand, 



looked with disgust at what he had received, and 



said: 



" Blimy, if ever I drives you two gentlemen again 

 I hopes as how you'll send your 'innards on in 

 Pickford's van ! " 



Two sportsmen staying at an hotel in Doncaster, 



being casual sort of people, did not bother to in- 



A Doncaster ^^ire about the price of the rooms which 



''"^ they kept for a meeting. At the end 



of the meeting they asked for a bill, and found 



they had been charged £3 a night. It was put 



