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they did, hoping to prove it was a case of incendiarism. 

 Proof of this, though, was found impossible ; but, 

 rather than be done, they built a new stand costing 

 ;^6oo, and it was never used afterwards. The meet- 

 ing was done away with, as several others were 

 about that time, consequently the stand was a white 

 elephant to George Fox and Bolo. I well remember 

 it being built, and also seeing it pulled down, and 

 the bricks placed for sale. I used to notice it when 

 travelling on the Great Western Railway en route 

 for Bath Races. The course almost adjoined the 

 West Drayton railway-station. 



Count Bolo always considered himself a great 

 friend of poor Fordham's, but really he was Fordham's 

 greatest enemy. George was fond of a lark, and 

 easily led away, and this Bolo knew, and many a 

 night has he spent in his company larking when he 

 ought to have been in bed ; but up to the very last 

 Fordham stuck to him. With all Bolo's faults, 

 he was an amusing companion. You could not help 

 laughing at him or liking him, he was such an 

 extraordinarily clever fellow. I knew him at least 

 twenty years, and during all that time he lived 

 up to quite ^2,000 a year, although he had no 

 income of any sort. His argument was that the 

 best of everything was good enough for him, and 



