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the ' Tom Tiddler's ground ' of England) as he read — in 

 his English Calendar of 1881 — about the perfect swarm 

 of animals bred elsewhere than in England or France : 

 about Aranza, Aristocrat, Barrett, Bookmaker, Boreas, 

 Brakespeare, Bran Dance, Don Fulano, El Capitan, Fine, 

 Forget-me-not, Gemsbok, General Scott, Gerald, Golden 

 Gate, Idea, Lord Murphy, Marshal Macdonald, Meteor, 

 Mirth, Mistake, North Star, Nuncio, Passaic, Queen- 

 fisher, Ranchero, Eomeo, Seminole, Seneca, Susque- 

 hanna, Useful, Wallenstein, and Wilbert, all ' bred in 

 America ; ' about Alma, Der Wucherer, Donna Christine, 

 Eawcliffe Ings, bred in Germany ; about Bajtars, Ber- 

 zencze, Coquine, La Gondola, Merry Heart, bred in 

 Austria-Hungary ; about Ca3sar (by Billesdon), Mowerina 

 (by Scottish Chief), Sheila (by The Palmer), bred in 

 Denmark ; about Ciarlatano and Ofanto (both by Heir- 

 at-Law), Speranza and Sukey (both by Pirate King), 

 bred in Italy ; and about Darley (by Yadim), Lady Lyon 

 (by Lord Lyon), and Stchaistia (by Vadim), bred in 

 Russia ; especially if he remembered that animals ' bred 

 in Australia ' had already left the Antipodes and run in 

 the Podes, whether at Newcastle or elsewhere in Eng- 

 land, and if his prophetic soul or a ' Calendar of Races 

 to Come ' supplied him with a vision of candidates ' bred 

 in Poland,' or ' bred in Spain,' or ' bred in Eoumania.' 

 Of course ' bred in Belgium ' would liave been common 

 enough to him. 



But neither for the Frenchmen nor for John Bull 

 liimself has there been anything much to fear hitherto ; 

 for the former lest any other foreigner should interfere 

 Avith his ' little pickings ' on the English Turf, and for 

 the latter lest Frenchman, German, Austro-Hungarian, 

 Russian, Pole, Italian, Spaniard, Roumanian, Australian, 

 or ' New Zealander ' should do liim any permanent 



