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for the return journey at niglit, wliicli was 

 made very comfortably, after a good day's 

 sport. Lord Henry rode back some miles with 

 him, and gave him a message for their com- 

 mon brother-in-law, Mr. Denison, Lady Char- 

 lotte being Lord Henry's sister. It was, that 

 the young horse of his which he had sent for 

 the whipper-in to make a hunter of, was a 

 rank roarer ; and what was extraordinary, this 

 was the ninth horse out of eleven that he had 

 sent that had become so ; and the only way 

 that he could account for it was that they 

 were all very large horses. His lordship) also 

 asked Mr. Smith whether he had ever heard 

 any cause for a horse becoming a roarer ; who 

 replied that he had not : he never had but one 

 horse a roarer, and that was one of the largest 

 he ever possessed; indeed, he' had scarcely 

 ever seen a small horse a roarer. The reason, 

 he thought, possibly might be, that as large 

 horses are the produce of a thorough-bred by 

 a half-bred, which produce may inherit part of 



