2 86 /// Scarlet and Silk 



" Well, there are one or two in Constable's 

 lot tliat I shouldn't mind getting — at a price, 

 you know. They've most of them been gal- 

 loped almost off their legs ; especially the 

 grey, you know." 



That decides you. This fellow is trying 

 to put you off buying Shamrock. You vow 

 within your wicked heart that Shamrock 

 shall be yours. "Once on board the lugger" 

 — or rather, to descend from metaphor, once 

 on the good grey's back, you will show the per- 

 fidious Stubbins the way along, and revenge 

 yourself sweetly on him for playing you that 

 dirty trick — which, by the way, when you 

 come to think of it, you were just contem- 

 plating playing him ! 



Two hours later (how slowly they sell the 

 horses preceding the one you want to buy) 

 the crowd at the lower end of the yard 

 parts to admit the passage of a rare good- 

 looking, dark grey horse. What a " made 

 'un " ! what grand shoulders ; and watch 

 how he picks uj) his feet and " goes all 

 round " as he trots up to the rostrum, fully 



