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SO ill every compartment ; one (the one with its muzzle 

 in the manger) had been struck dead by the Hghtning, 

 the other had escaped. If both had been able to feed 

 at the same time, the whole twelve — instead of six — 

 would assuredly have been killed. The names of five of 

 the killed are given : Czarda (by Salvator and Czarina), 

 Gargantua(by Stracchino and The Garry), Mic-Mac (by 

 Gilbert and Merry May), Tape-a-l'CEil (by Salvator or 

 Saladin and a dam not mentioned), and Yis-ti-Vis (by 

 (Uhlan and Vigogne). 



It is by no means an uncommon thing for thorougli- 

 bred youngsters to be killed by lightning, but that it 

 should happen on so wholesale a scale, and under such 

 interesting circumstances, as regards the alternation, is 

 very unusual indeed. 



M. H. Bony (the half-owner of Plaisanterie), who 

 died at the early age of thirty-nine, was a ' cliimiste ' 

 (a scientific chemist, not a chemist and druggist) ; but 

 the word recalls the case of Mr. A. Nichol (of New- 

 castle, the owner of Newminster, The Wizard, &c.), 

 who was a merchant ' chemist ' (' pharmacien '), but 

 as favourable as M. Bony to racehorses and horse- 

 racing. M. Bony (born at Senlis, near Chantilly, and 

 so inhaling ' horse ' with his native air) first began the 

 business he loved best (which was not ' scientific che- 

 mistry') in 1877. In 1878 he ran two horses, Pompee 

 II. (by Le Mandarin and Picciola) and Vermisseau (by 

 Hospodar and Volatile), the latter having belonged first 

 of all to the Haras de Loiiray (Messrs. Staub and 

 Donon), and then to the Viscount E. Gouy-d'Arsy, but 

 does not seem to have seen much besides other horses' 

 tails (though he did run third now and tlien) : at last (by 

 a ' fluke,' of course) he was lucky enough to purchase 

 Plaisanterie (for some 32/.), of Viscount Danger, and so 



