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Lancers, and four others, but Mr. Carey, not being satisfied 

 with his horse's defeat, matched him for /^loo against Gipsy 

 Queen, at the same weight and over the same course, the 

 result being a still more decisive victory for the mare. 



A man of many friends and a great favourite with them 

 all, Captain Little died on the 17th of February, 1877, at 

 the Hotel Clarendon, in Paris, in which gay city he was 

 quite as much at home as in London ; the immediate cause 

 being congestion of the liver, the result of a cold contracted 

 the previous Wednesday as he was returning from his 

 Club. 



Full of ancedote and an admirable raconteur, there was 

 no better company than " Josey " Little. One of his pet 

 stories was how he was once approached by an impecunious 

 sportsman with a scheme for their mutual benefit, which really 

 deserved to succeed if only for its owner's powers of invention. 

 Having duly weighed out for an important steeplechase, in 

 which his mount was carrying a penalty ; Captain Little was 

 to abstract the leads from his saddle-cloth and hand them 

 to his confederate. He was then to win his race — that was 

 a matter of course — "and when you pull up, I will be 

 THERE, Captain, with ten pounds of shot, which I will pour 

 into your Booots. You understand. Captain .»* Your Booots ! " 



His life-long friend, Mrs. John Powney, widow of the owner 

 of that celebrated horse the Hero, and sister to John and 

 William Day, tells the following story : " I remember," says 

 she, " Captain Little saying to me one day, * Margaret, take 

 my advice and never get into a railway carriage with only 

 one person in it, as I have just had an awful experience 

 travelling from York races. My only fellow-passenger kept 

 his eye on me, and, needless to say, I did the same. At last 

 he made a spring at me. I was ready, however, and managed 



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