i6o HARK FORRARD! 



England. Promise me at all events that you 

 will wait one week before you start for 

 America.' 



* All right, I will promise you ; but I swear 

 that I will not wait one single hour longer.' 



They went to Newmarket on Tuesday, and 

 Reginald Miller had the satisfaction there of 

 seeing a horse of his win the Trial Plate. 

 His three-year-old, which had been quoted all 

 through the winter at twenty-five to one for 

 the Derby, was not entered for the Two Thou- 

 sand, and it was just as well that he wasn't, as 

 his trainer, who met him in the Birdcage, told 

 him that the horse had on the previous day met 

 with a nasty accident. As his boy was walk- 

 ing him home after he had done his work, a 

 thunderstorm broke, and a terrific flash of light- 

 ning so terrified the horse that he bolted when 

 within two hundred yards of his stable, slipped 

 up on turning into the yard at full gallop, and 

 cut himself about badly. 



^It will take us all our time to get him 

 ready for the Derby, sir, I fear,' said the trainer. 



