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his master's wants a great deal better than did the 

 many suspicious-looking gentlemen who so often 

 wished to see him, and so tenderly inquired for his 

 health. But, in training under these circumstances, 

 we can perhaps understand how Mr. Parr mistook 

 Fernhill for a plater, and sold him and some others, 

 with his house and stables, for half the value of the 

 one horse. Fernhill, the next year, won the North- 

 amptonshire Stakes and the Metropolitan. Isoline, 

 parted with under similar circumstances, won the 

 Goodwood Cup and other races after he sold her. 



"When the new law of liquidation came into force, 

 Mr. Parr had no longer the need to enlist the services 

 of the faithful George, or lie perdu in a hayloft. He 

 could then <nve a gracious welcome to all comers who 

 had kindly done him a service; and though unable to 

 settle their little requirements at the moment, could 

 assure them that he had another good horse with 

 which to recoup him his losses, and enable him to 

 settle up everything with liberality. For, naturally, 

 he infinitely preferred liberty to confinement, and his 

 meals in his dining-room rather than in the loft. It 

 must be said of him that, alternating from good to 

 bad fortune in quick succession — to-day rich, to- 

 morrow moneyless — he bore his hard fate with ad- 

 mirable patience. Up to the year 1850, with the 

 exception of his old slave, Clothmaker, no one horse 

 in his numerous stud did more than pay its way, if it 

 did so much, and, in addition, provide sufficient for 



