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seems hard, considering that I should have had to pay 

 if he had not turned out a winner. 



REPORTER. Are you comfortable here ? 



DUKE OF PORTLAND. By no means. They contend 

 that as I have deprived stable-boys of their just dues 

 I must live like a stable-boy, and (this in a whisper) I 

 believe they give me horse-flesh to eat. It comes rather 

 hard on one to make such a complete change ; and then 

 I understand that since my imprisonment poor St Simon 

 has been shot by the mob of federated horse-owners 

 because his success at the Stud was so great that he 

 infringed their rules. This has been a bitter blow to me. 



Here the Duke was visibly moved. He was about to 

 say more when the warder roughly intimated that "time 

 was up," and the St Stephens Review man had to depart 

 on his way with these brief but interesting details. 



The Duke of Beaufort was in solitary confinement 

 and on punishment diet so could not be seen. 



We can only add that we trust there is still some 

 spark of courage and generosity in the British race 

 which will glow to fever heat over this unmerited and 

 dastardly punishment inflicted on the amiable Duke, 

 and we cannot but think that a people once supposed 

 to be devotees of Sport will rise in their wrath at such 

 an outrage on one of their idols and hurl our detested 

 rulers from the place which they so evilly occupy. 



The sketch of Frank Slavin as the Serjeant-at-Arms, 

 after the Popular Poll, is very perfect. I should like 

 to have seen Frank in those days up against such as 

 Dempsey and Carpentier. Peter Jackson, alone, was 

 too good for him, but Peter was the wonder of the 

 world. 



