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about the second week in October. I saw Mr. 

 Crawshaw on Newmarket Heath soon afterwards, 

 and began talking to him about the future season's 

 hunting, and I also asked him how he was likely to 

 be mounted. He told me he had three pretty good 

 ones already, and that he was going to send for ' The 

 Doctor ' next week, I directly said : 



"You will have to send two very strong men and 

 two policemen to get him, as he is in my stable, and 

 will take some Qrettinof out," 



The fact was, the Duke had forgotten all about 

 Mr. Crawshaw asking him for the horse. Where 

 the latter made the mistake was in not sendinQ^ for 

 him at once. Anyhow, I got ' The Doctor,' and a 

 niarvellous good hunter he turned out to be. 



When ' The Doctor ' reached me, he had been 

 turned out in a strawyard, and being a crib-biter, 

 and a very gross horse as well, he looked a 

 " beauty." I am certain he would not have 

 fetched ^20 either at auction or in a fair if they 

 had not known what horse it was. He was all 

 stomach, ewe-necked, and had a club-foot, which 

 Mr. Holman told me I should never be able to keep 

 a shoe on. Curiously enough I did manage to, 

 and he only threw one shoe off that foot during 

 the whole time I rode him. I put him in work, got 



