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and as my old friend was most truthful in everything 

 which he uttered, it would have been an insult to his 

 memory to have inserted anything respecting him upon 

 merely hearsay evidence, or to have quoted as fad, 

 anything which he would not have endorsed. I myself 

 have heard from his own mouth every single incident 

 which I have now collected into a general whole, and 

 I have often admired the wonderful simplicity with 

 which he gave his own recollections ; nor did any of 

 these vary in the most minute particular, though in 

 my frequent visits to his fireside I have heard them, 

 as he would express it, '' times and times." . 



His memory was most retentive, and as a proof of 

 it, he told me on one occasion of his having gone with 

 his father and mother to Ludlow races in 1800, when 

 he was only eight years old ; and he gave from memory 

 the names of the horses that ran, their owners, riders, 

 and colours ; and turning to a large bureau in his 

 sitting-room, where he kept all sorts of valuables, Loui 

 produced from a bundle of papers, which seemed to 

 have been lying dormant for the last century, a card of 

 the Ludlow races of that year, a copy of which I have, 

 and sure enough he was correct in every particular. It 

 is true there was only one, race on each of the two days 

 and only three horses started in all, but the old man 

 was perfectly right in his account of everything, though 



