Captain George Warwick Hunt 



Alas ! their respective hopes were doomed to be dis- 

 appointed. Harcourt ran nowhere ; whilst Le Mandarin, a 

 rogue of the first water, ridden by Harry Grimshaw, could 

 only get second to Vertugagne, as big a thief as himself. 



" Argus," in an amusing description of the day's proceedings 

 in the Morning Post, thus describes the incident : 



" A letter from Baden without an allusion to a duel, relative 

 to an actress or a gentleman, would be a great disappointment 

 to the lovers of gossip and those who like other people to 

 travel for them. Well, although I have not an affair of honour 

 for your readers, I have at least an own brother to it, as they 

 will admit. 



" It seems that for the last few years there has been a very 

 disagreeable feeling in France with reference to English 

 gentlemen 'riders,' and the alliance between them and their 

 foreign brethren has not been quite as strong as that 

 of Cherbourg in reference to that of naval and military 

 matters. 



*' Captain Hunt especially has had to put up with repeated 

 annoyances whenever he rode, the fault of his animal being 

 laid on himself; and if he did not win it was said to be from 

 want of inclination. Hitherto, he has been unable to fix on 

 any one the responsibility of a charge of this description, but 

 on Wednesday afternoon he was more successful, for on 

 returning to scale on Benjamin, a Mons. Thomas, an adventurer 

 on the Bourse, shouted out to him in the most offensive 

 manner, 'You have played your game well, Captain Hunt.' 

 At the moment he took no notice of the insult, but, putting 

 on his coat, he went up to M. Thomas's carriage and demanded 

 an explanation. Not receiving an apology, but rather a fresh 

 insult, he, without hesitating an instant, pulled the Frenchman 

 out of his carriage by his nasal organ, which unfortunately for 



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