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to see horses jum]3 was a sight for the gods ! 

 On every race he religiously punted half-a- 

 crown, never more or less ; and in all the 

 years I knew him, I never remember his 

 backing a winner but once. Poor Tom Brett 

 had a heart of gold, but it was certainly 

 hidden beneath a strange, uncouth exterior. 



Why lawyers should be generally considered 

 incapable of sympathy with sport, is passing 

 strange ; and how false the notion is, is easily 

 shown by mentioning such names in con- 

 nection with hunting and racing as those of 

 the Lord Chief- Justice (Lord Eussell) ; the 

 late Mr. Granville Somerset, Q.C., one of the 

 best men who ever crossed Exmoor ; Sir 

 Henry Hawkins ; Lord Justice Lopes ; Mr. 

 Justice Grantham ; Sir Frank Lockwood, Q.C., 

 M.P., the late Solicitor-General ; Mr. Butcher, 

 M.P. ; and Mr. Darling, Q.C., M.P.— all of 

 whom, by the way, took great interest in 

 the first Bench and Bar Point to Point race, 

 run April lo, 1895. That so grave and 

 learned a profession could do anything of 

 such a decidedly "frisky" nature as indulge 



