CHAPTER IV. 



ME. JOHN GULLY. 



Connection with 'The Danebury Confederacy' — Origin — Thrashes 

 a bully — Introduction to the Ring — Fights Pierce and Gregson 

 — Owen Swift's trial — Personal appearance — Joint ownership 

 of Andover, Mendicant, and Pyrrhus the First — ' Old John Day's 

 bitter pill ' — The true story ; my father's real interest in these 

 — Mr. E. Tattersall and the purchase of Fortress for Lord 

 Caledon — The model auctioneer — Gully's assault on Mr. Eidsdale 

 — A ' view-holloa ' by the Bar — Duel with ' The Squire ' — 

 Interference between my father and brother ; disruption of the 

 Danebury stud — Harry Hill turned out of "VVhitewall — 

 Danebury to-day — Gully and Hill's connection in racing — 

 Silent wisdom — The bull and the red-coat — Policemen treated 

 as nine-pins — His end. 



Truthfully it is said by an anonymous writer of the 

 last century that 'If it be more grateful to an in- 

 genuous mind to celebrate the praises of humanity, it 

 is no less necessary to expose the vices that deform it. 

 In enumerating the excellences of men, we present a 

 model to imitate ; in detecting their depravity, we 

 hold out an example to deter. In either case the 

 attempt is equally useful and commendable. To hold 

 the mirror up to nature, to show vice its own image, is 



