62 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



the hair. One, a black filly, soon died, but 

 the brown colt recovered (almost as unex- 

 pectedly as ' Resurrection,' who, when a foal, 

 was thrown on to a dung-hill for dead, and 

 revived from the heat), and was christened 

 Auckland. ' He subsequently won a few 

 races, disputing with Belgrade the honour of 

 being placed third to Attila in the Derby. 

 The old Marquis did not omit to send in a 

 claim against the company for ,£3,000, which 

 I believe was immediately paid. 



"The school fights were conducted in an 

 unique fashion, and were strictly forbidden 

 to take place in private. The consequence 

 was, that boys mostly had to sleep upon 

 their valorous determination to fight on 

 the morrow, and found themselves wonder- 

 fully cooled by the end of 'first lesson.' If, 

 however, sleep had not acted as a sedative, 

 eight o'clock was the appointed hour for the 

 tournament. An immense ring was formed 

 near the school chapel, and the windows of 

 the adjacent houses on the Dunchurch road 

 were as full as those of Water Terrace, 

 overlooking Horsemonger Lane Gaol, when 

 Mrs. Manning gratified the gaze of Charles 



