"CHERRY AND BLACK" 



Highland Lassie with a foal at her foot, we pass into 

 the cosy library where a wood-fire burns and crackles 

 cheerfully. Horse portraits are plenty. Mortemer, 

 from the easel of Harry Stull, and Iroquois, the work 

 of Harry Hall, look down from either side; Mortemer 

 with head aloft and flag outstretched, as though answer- 

 ing the call of one of the Belgravian dames of Ran- 

 cocas. Uncas finds a place on the side panel, and 

 Parole, in his three-year-old form, looks 



d ery of \)^q]^ from the other side. From the library 



the Cracks . . / 



to the dining-room, and here Uncas again 



finds a place over the sideboard. Near the fireplace 

 Zoo Zoo catches the eye, and Parole's portrait, painted 

 in England and nearly five feet in length, occupies the 

 middle panel; and on its broad frame are inscribed the 

 triumphs of the famous gelding here and in England; 

 while immediately below, Attila's silver bowl forms a 

 pleasant memento of the "run-off" of the dead-heat for 

 the Travers of 1 874. 



In the rear hall hangs a clock, which, at intervals of 

 a half hour, sends forth a cavatina from the bugler 

 within, and our host succeeded in palming the serenade 

 off upon us as that of "an old one-legged soldier," until 

 our credulity proved too amusing. The hall is gar- 

 nished with paintings of Glenlyon by Mr. 

 ^1 , Scott, also of Moccasin, and Saxon finds a 



place near the hat-stand to remind Mr. 

 Lorillard of his first winner; while Duke of Magenta 



