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RECORDS OF OLD TIMES 



deemed advisable to exhume Leander, and so 

 verify the reports about him, when, on his exhuma- 

 tion, it was discovered that his lower jaw had been 

 sawn off and carried away ! so that all proof of his 

 age had been destroyed. I have been told that the 

 conspirators had arranged that if the horse had won 

 he was to have been sent off immediately after the 

 race to Gravesend, where a steamer was in readi- 

 ness to take him out to sea, to be there killed 

 and thrown overboard, so as never to have been 

 seen again ; but the accident prevented the scheme 

 from being carried out. 



