TAKES BACK A GIFT. ir 3 



mightily pleased ; and on coming to Danebury, with his 

 customary munificence, made my mother a present of 

 the Cup, which she kept for several years — in fact, 

 until the horses left Danebury, when he demanded it 

 back again, saying that ' he had never given it her, 

 nor had he ever the idea even of doino- such a thing 1 ' — 

 and the trophy was returned. 



