Prince Charles Kinsky 



thought proper to yield to public opinion, and do away with 

 this death-trap. 



And now comes the comic side of the incident, which we 

 will give in Prince Kinsky s own words. 



" Well," he writes, " the doctor gave me a lotion to put on 

 my skinless face to soothe and heal it. The stuff was to be put 

 on every hour, and the so doing gave me such frightful pain 

 that I positively dreaded the moment when the time came 

 round again. However, notwithstanding, I applied it most 

 religiously for a whole day, thinking all the time how I would 

 tell the doctor at his next visit that I could not stand the torture 

 any longer. This I accordingly did when he came the follow- 

 ing morning, when it turned out that my valet had mistaken 

 the bottle, and applied instead a hair-restoring lotion, which 

 I was fool enough to buy under the impression that it would 

 prevent my hair from falling out. The remarkable thing was, 

 that though — as I might have known — the mixture was quite 

 useless as a hair restorer, it certainly made my face heal up in 

 the most miraculous way. What an advertisement for its 

 proprietor had he only known ! eh ? " 



After winning the Grand National of 1883, on Zoedone, 

 her rider, on his way back to the paddock, overhead Jimmy 

 Adams, who was just in front, say to another jockey : " What 

 are we coming to ? Last year it was a Lord won the Grand 

 National (Lord Manners) ; this year a Count ; and next year 

 it will be an old woman most likely ! " ** He was not a little 

 astonished, I dare say," remarked Prince Kinsky, as he laughed 

 at the reminiscence, when he heard my voice say behind his 

 back, "Yes, Jimmy, and I hope this old woman will be 

 yourself." 



Two years later the Count and Jimmy found themselves 

 alongside of each other coming to the brook with the white 



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