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should dare to doubt that my cat was poisoned. Do 

 you think, Mr George, I can prosecute The Daily Buster 

 for libel ? 



GEORGE. On that point, your Grace, I will take the 

 opinion of counsel. As to proof of the poisoning, I will 

 do my utmost, and offer a reward. 



(CURTAIN.) 



("Sporting Times," itfh May 1892.) 



The above effusion exactly described the Orme busi- 

 ness as it appeared to me, and I hope it was sufficiently 

 amusing not to be offensive. John Porter alludes to it 

 in his first book, Kingsclere. The Duke of Westminster 

 never discovered who was the author of the " skit," but 

 for the rest he was so far from blaming me that he 

 gave me a nomination to Orme the first year the horse 

 went to the stud. 



