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everything except the horses is ont of sight. Every 

 new horse is measured for his Cuff saddle, unless 

 there is one in the collection to fit, and the names of 

 the wearers are all labelled above them, and in purple 

 morocco under the flap. "Moultan's" and '^'^ Wynd- 

 ham^s'^ labels still hang as escutcheons, and so does the 

 bridle which his Grace used when he was a fellow com- 

 moner at Trinity. Y\^yndham was bred in the Berwick 

 country, and served the Duke for eighteen seasons. 

 His Grace did not ride him so much latterly, and he 

 was such a perfect fifteen-three model, both in mouth 

 and temper, that he was more a sort of all-comers' 

 horse, carrying ladies or any visitors by winter, and 

 acting as Captain Bowman^s charger at Dalkeith in 

 summer. Lord John rode him at times, and revelled 

 in him over the stone walls on the moors, and skim- 

 ming over the fine turf of Drinkstone and Chapel 

 Hill. His Grace rode Moultan once a week as his 

 first horse, and he broke down with him over a stone 

 wall near Alton in his fourteenth season. He v/as 

 l)rought home to be painted by M'Cleod, and then, 

 he was shot, and buried with Paymaster, who was 

 also twenty-three. He was very handsome and 

 fast, and fencing no object, and as Mr. Hodges says 

 rather despairingly, "I may ride a dozen hacks to 

 death, and never find his equal again. '^ He was by 

 Wintonian, from his Grace^s celebrated Rosa Mar 

 by Springkell out of Helen Mar by Viscount. This 

 ^rand combination of Caledonian Hunt winner blood 

 was bought at Mr. Bailey of Mellerstain^s sale, and 



