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having a share — Mr. John Ehnore, The Druid goes 

 on to say : " Grimaldi, Lottery, Jerry, Gaylad, 

 The Weaver, Sam Weller, and British Yeoman, 

 bore the ' bkie and black cap,' in turn ; but 

 Lottery was the only one he cared to talk 

 much about. His friends used to laugh at this 

 ' Horncastle horse,' who was lamed with larking 

 the day he got him, but he always said, ' Von may 

 lau(ih, but voif// sec ii coiuc oiiiH and well was his 

 patience rewarded. When the horse had ceased 

 to defy creation with Jim ALison under thirteen 

 stone-seven, if ever a friend went down for an after- 

 noon with Jack at Uxendon, he would order him 

 to be saddled. ' Hang ii ! ' he would say, ' have 

 you never been on the old horse ? Get up ! and 

 be the o-round ever so hard, or the fences ever so 

 blind, he would insist on their backing him, one 

 after the other, if there were half a dozen of them. 

 He would turn him over anything" ; and occasionally 

 it would be the iron hurdles between the earden 

 and the paddock, or for lack of a handier fence, 

 he would put two rustic garden chairs together." 



The following lively ditty, written by an un- 

 known hand — at least, it may be taken for granted 

 so, as there is no signature to it — commemorative 

 of Lottery's Grand National, appeared the following 



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