1 6 MR. HENRY PAD WICK. 



less than £7.000. On the second day he ran a dead- 

 heat with Mr. Merry's Costa, which stake was divided, 

 and was then sold for a very much less sum and left me 

 — only winning once at Goodwood after — and finished 

 his career ingloriously by being beat, as an aged geld- 

 ing;, in a Selling; race, winner to be sold for £20. 



Whether or not Mr. Padwick thought, to use an 

 inelegant but apt illustration, I had ' set a sprat to 

 catch a mackerel/ and sold him a horse for £1,000, 

 knowing him to be worth £5,000 at the time, in the 

 vain hope of inducing him to give that sum or more 

 for one not worth a guinea, and conceived me to 

 be as well versed as himself in an art in which he 

 was so eminently proficient, I am not prepared to 

 say. But as he never bought another of me, I pre- 

 sume he was not well pleased with his meditations on 

 the subject, and thought himself deceived. However, 

 w T e always remained friends in the common acceptation 

 of the word. 



This easy assumption by Mr. Padwick that decep- 

 tion of any kind was practised in the matter, 

 irresistibly brings to mind the story of the astute 

 young gentleman, who having freely anticipated his 

 fortune, applied to a rich uncle to oblige him with a 

 temporary loan of £1,000 — a request readily assented 

 to. With a deep ulterior motive, the money was 

 promptly repaid, with thanks. The nephew concluded 

 he had hit upon a veritable gold mine. The ready 

 compliance with the first request ; the straightforward 



