Captain Little 



tones not without tremor and with bated breath : ** Poor 

 Frank Gordon. I am sorry. What a man he was ! " Or, 

 " Well, sir, you've heard that Mr. Frank is gone." For the 

 last few years he had made his home with his sons at 

 Wroughton in Wiltshire, where he passed away last Friday 

 after a short illness, pneumonia having supervened on a chill 

 contracted out hunting the week before. His son Arthur 

 is well known as a successful Steeplechase rider. 



Your obedient servant, 



E. C. Clayton. 



Cottesmore Grange, 

 Oakham, 



March 5th, 1907. 



CAPTAIN LITTLE 



One of the very best gentleman riders of his day, and as good 

 on the flat as over a country, was Captain Joseph Lockart 

 Little, familiarly known as " Josey " Little. 



The " Little Captain " as he was sometimes styled was 

 born in 182 1, at Chipstead near Redhill, Surrey, where his 

 family had long been located, and held a commission in the 

 King's Dragoon Guards until the year 1848, when in con- 

 sequence of the failure of the bank in which all his money was 

 deposited, he exchanged into the 8ist Regiment of foot. 



According to a writer of the period, Captain Little was at 

 Worcester races when the news reached him of the bank's 

 collapse, and the story goes that, mounted on The Chandler, he 

 was leaving the saddling enclosure, when Davies the Leviathan 

 shouted out, *' Twenty ponies against your horse * The 



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