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Amongst those they owned jointly were, I think, 

 Pitsford, Cymba, Hermit by Bay Middleton, Little 

 Harry, Trumpeter, and other serviceable horses, 

 which would have made fortunes for moderate men. 

 But they were insatiable, and felt poor from not 

 having more, and took the doubtful methods to 

 increase their store to which I must presently refer. 

 I must not omit to say of Gully, before concluding my 

 notice of him, that he was by no means popular with 

 those who knew him best on the turf; and though 

 not a bad judge of a horse, was often ' reputed wise 

 for saying nothing.' For he would muse for hours 

 over his bia: cigar without uttering a word, and 

 was as reticent in all his affairs as he was in ' the 

 House ' when an honourable member. The barrels of 

 beer that he had placed in the streets of Wakefield 

 did more towards securing him a seat in Parliament 

 than his powerful oratory in appealing to the good 

 sense and honourable feelings of the independent 

 Liberal electors. 



In private life he was reputed to have been a 

 moderate liver. He was specially fond of carving his 

 own joints, a habit doubtless acquired in early life 

 when he was in the purveying business. He hunted, 

 and this amusement on one occasion nearly cost him 

 his life. Before changing his dress for dinner he went 

 to one of the sheds to look at some beasts he had ' up 

 feeding.' One of them, disliking, I suppose, the colour 

 of his red coat, turned on him, and but for the timely 



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