220 EACECOUESE AND COVEET SIDE. 



" You are looking at the pictures, I see," 

 William Day observes, " That is Crucifix, with 

 my father up and my brother John holding his 

 hack. It is one of Harry Hall's. That is 

 Crucifix again. Herring's work. Then, the 

 other side is Promised Land. That is a horse 

 called Wisdom, painted ~ by Abraham Cooper ; 

 and the mare and foal are by Ferneley, who was 

 considered a wonderfully clever man in his day." 



" Good horses, all of them. What do you 

 think the best you ever knew ? " I asked. 



'' This one — Foxhall," his trainer replies ; 

 ** and I remember Bay Middleton, Pleni- 

 potentiary, and West Australian, but I don't 

 think one of them could have beaten Foxhall." 



" I suppose Promised Land was a real good 

 one." 



"Yes, I ought to have won the Derby on 

 him, would have won had I made proper use 

 of him, but I was over-persuaded by my father 

 to wait with him. We cantered up the hill as 

 usual, and Musjid won by his turn of speed. That 

 Promised Land was the better horse of the two 

 is, I think, pretty well shown by the fact that 

 though a match had been made in the spring 

 between him and Musjid, to come off in the 

 autumn, for three thousand guineas a-side. Sir 

 Joseph dared not run, and paid forfeit ; and then, 



