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helping the terriers with most sand in his hair. 

 He had a racehorse or two in Scotland, but never 

 regularly settled to the sport till he had purchased 

 Phryne and hired Pantaloon; and engaged Mat 

 Dawson in ^48 to train for him, first at Newmarket, 

 and then at Compton. He sold Elthiron, the first 

 of "the PP stocV to Lord Eglinton, to his own 

 sorrow, for 250 gs. ; and he stuck to the remainder, 

 except when the £6,500 for Hohbie Noble tempted 

 him. His sister Miserrima was then tried high 

 enough to have won five out of six Oaks ; but Frank 

 Butler, on the roaring Iris, waited and outstrode her. 

 George Whitehouse, a very quick man at a T.Y.C. 

 post, and then Marlow, rode for the stable. Hobbie 

 Noble was a slug in his work, and The Reiver very 

 awkward to do with in the stable ; and Cannobie was, 

 perhaps, the best horse his lordship ever had. He 

 gave up racing a few years before his death, as his 

 health was not strong enough to bear the excitement. 

 Mr. Merry took the stud in a lump at last, and 

 had two foals from Phryne. The old mare died at 

 Hasketon, very near her time of foaling a colt by 

 Alice Hawthorne^s son Oulston, to whom she had 

 been sent for the sake of getting collaterally at 

 another Thormanby.* 



Lord John, who named a race-horse after him, and 

 British Yeoman, are ever on old '^ Terrona's^' lips. 

 He was quite in his glory when be repaired to the 



* For a further accotmt of Lord John's Cawston stud, see "Scott and 

 Sebkight," pp. 222—226. 



