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what she was worth, and I replied 3000 guineas. No 

 answer came, but his trainer, John Huggins, whom 

 everyone liked, appeared at the sale and bid for Saintly 

 and foal up to 3000 guineas, and someone else got them 

 for 3100 guineas. 



That sort of thing would have annoyed most English- 

 men, but it did not annoy me, and the sequel was that 

 some time later, when I went to 46A Pall Mall, our 

 secretary said : " There is a letter from Mr Whitney 

 with a cheque. How much do you think it is for ? " 

 I replied : " Maybe ^100." He handed it to me and 

 it was for ^1000. 



The letter itself was delightfully expressed, and I 

 shall always regret that, as I valued it greatly, I kept 

 it in a note-case carried in my breast-pocket, and this 

 was abstracted some years ago by pilfering gentry to 

 whom I would willingly have given the other contents. 



Mr Whitney wrote, in legal phraseology, that the 

 cheque was merely a "retainer" and that time would 

 bring " Refreshers," which indeed happened the follow- 

 ing week, when I sold him Rambling Katie for I think 

 4500 guineas. 



This will perhaps give some idea that in dealing with 

 Americans you have to cast adrift all insular ideas as 

 to what you are entitled to expect. 



SOUTH AMERICA 



My first visit to Buenos Aires was in 1904, on the 

 good old R.M.S.P. Clyde, which I had boarded off 

 the Needles in 1893, when Mr Somerville Tattersall, 

 John Porter and I had gone off on the tender from 

 Southampton to meet her, as she was bringing Ormonde 

 on the first stage of his journey to California. A story 



