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fellows it brings, and I was fond of the old brown 

 mare. 



I nnust give Time a couple of paragraphs all to 

 himself. As Gamester, he belonged to Mr. Charlie 

 Wilson of Calcutta, and was expected to do something 

 great, but never succeeded in accomplishing it, if we 

 may except a match he won against the very moderate 

 Jerry, whom I once saw well ridden in a steeplechase 

 at Lucknow by that brave man Mr. Germany, late of 

 Cawnpore. Gamester was said to have come up ta 

 Lucknow to run in a steeplechase more than a year 

 previous to the Constable Cup, but did not. It hap- 

 pened thus. That plucky horseman. Captain Franks 

 of " The Buffs," who used to race under the name of 

 " Mr. Norman," and is now in civil employ at Indore, 

 had a fine cross-country horse called Kingcraft, whose 

 excellence was only known to " Mr. Norman," Mr. 

 Edward Beadon, Mr. Hartwell, and one or two more. 

 Kingcraft was entered for a Lucknow steeplechase, for 

 which, purely as a lark, Mr. Beadon entered the ch. w. g. 

 Gamester : a description that tallied with that of Mr. 

 Wilson's animal, but had no reference to him. There 

 were some other horses running, which, however, have 

 no connection with our storv. Before the lotteries com- 



