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Tim Whiffler, Mr. Merry's Buckstone (by Vol- 

 tigeur), whose curious fate it was — though he was 

 wholly English — to be foaled in France (like Prince 

 Charlie) and to die in the Flowery Land. 



To Denmark went Baron Rothschild's King 

 Alfred (by King Tom), that ran second to Blue 

 Gown for the Derby ; and as for Italy, for whom 

 Andred and Scobell have done so much as sires, and 

 whose first Derby was run so recently as April 24, 

 1884, did not her Government only the other day 

 (in November, 1889) give ^10,000 for Melton 

 (winner of our Derby and St. Leger in 1885), or 

 the equivalent for that sum in (paper) lire ^ 



As for Poland, whether her son, Count Krasinski, 

 has a prophetic soul of more than ordinary trust- 

 worthiness or not, he at any rate became pos- 

 sessor of the colt (son of Isonomy) which Reate 

 (by Vespasian) was to foal after her importa- 

 tion into that country, named it Ruler, and 

 with it won the Russian Derby at Moscow in 

 1887. 



Having thus sown the wind broadcast, can we 

 wonder if we now and then reap the whirlwind ? 

 Can we be surprised if once in a while there 

 descend upon us, from east or west, or north or 



