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Cut Dick Vernon's throat and save all the blood — 

 To answer the purpose there 's none half so good ; 

 Pound Clermont to dust, you '11 find it expedient, 

 The world cannot furnish a better ingredient. 

 From Derby and Bedford take plenty of spirit — 

 Successful or not, they have always that merit. 

 Tommy Paston's address ; John Wastell's advice ; 

 And a touch of Prometheus, it 's done in a trice. ' 



This clearly shows what sporting men thought of 

 Queensberry's ability. Lord Clermont, nevertheless, 

 followed his grace in some respects; like him, he 

 was not above going round his own stable, and pre- 

 ferred his own eyesight to others' tongues. Indeed, 

 whether in the spirit of emulation or not, he even 

 stuck religiously to the same form of headgear as his 

 grace — the three-cornered hat, then out of vogue. 



1794 was as a racing year humiliating to the Duke, 

 as, out of seventeen engagements, not one caught the 

 judge's eye ; but ' win or lose,' he stuck manfully to 

 the sport, and increased his engagements to twenty- 

 three the following year ; of these he won four — value 

 about six hundred pounds. 



The world — or that portion of it represented by 

 penny-a-liners, many of whom are now honoured with 

 the term journalists — thought ' Old Q ' had lived 

 long enough; they therefore began this year, and 

 for many a one after, to kill him with common con- 



