Captain George Warwick Hunt 



providing, as Custance would say, * he did not run second.' 

 Contrary to the Claxton case, the award was received with the 

 utmost satisfaction, and Tuesday suggested as an open day, 

 and the merits of the pair discussed. 



" Your correspondent, however, who flatters himself he is 

 not a bad judge of men and manners, when appealed to, said 

 he could not help thinking M. Thomas was not a 'certain 

 starter,' and that he would much rather be watching his 

 operations in Mexican Stock and Credit Fonciers, than looking 

 for the direction of Captain Hunt's bullet. 



" And in this instance I was right, for whether M. Thomas 

 had heard that Captain Hunt had long since abjured the use 

 of snuffers and invariably put his chamber-candle out with a 

 Palais Royal pistol ; or else thought discretion was the better 

 part of valour, 1 cannot say, but when Captain Hunt's friend 

 went to his seconds to arrange ' the fixture,' they tendered him 

 at once an apology, and said that their friend's conduct was 

 inexcusable except for drink, and they could not conscientiously 

 go out with him. So the affair terminated quietly; and 

 Captain Hunt, winning the Prix de Dames the next day, was 

 loudly cheered for his spirited conduct, and so far from being a 

 victim to gentlemen 'jockeys ' he has become the champion of 

 their rights and privileges." 



Captain Hunt, who was twice married, first to Miss Emma 

 Taylor, and secondly to Miss F. Gould, daughter of Mr. 

 Charles Gould of Brighton, who survived him, died on the 

 15th of October, 1906, 



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