160 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



working on the " get rich quick" plan, good work pays 

 you even to the latter end of your life. 



I say I have never met Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield, 

 but that is not to say I do not know her, from corre- 

 spondence, to be a lady exactly in accord with my own 

 views about blood stock, and individually, I am sure, 

 a true sportswoman. One gets to know people in many 

 parts of the world, and that is half the pleasure of a 

 business like mine ; but I think I have never, in this 

 way, seen a friend of the right sort so clearly as Miss 

 Elizabeth Daingerfield, connecting as she does so 

 tenaciously if I may use the word my own services 

 in the James R. Keene Commission of 1892 with what 

 I am able, thank goodness, to do to-day. 



The late William Easton was a wonderful auctioneer, 

 but in connection with Tattersalls of New York he 

 proved impossible, though not before I had arranged 

 in 1891 for a large consignment of stock, numbering 

 over a hundred, to go out for sale in New York. 

 How this was brought about passes my recollection, 

 for it was before our office existed, and I did the whole 

 business, such as it was, from my private house. 



All sorts of animals, stallions, brood mares, yearlings 

 and foals, were included in that consignment, and most 

 of them went over by the White Star Line cattle boats, 

 but some by the then almost unknown Atlantic Trans- 

 port Line of Williams, Torrey & Field. In most cases 

 owners sent their own men in charge or even went 

 themselves ; and nothing in my experience has ever 

 been more curious than that the late Mr Smith of 

 Whimple should have sent out six Hawkstone yearlings 

 with his late son in charge and that Mr W. Clack, from 

 a near-by place in Devonshire, should also have taken 



