92 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



neighbourhood when so disposed, he is on 

 canvas all the world over, in nearly a hun- 

 dred positions. Sometimes an Ironside 

 stables him in a cathedral nave, or he waits 

 for some boisterous Cavalier hard by an ale- 

 house bench. He was one of the four first 

 horses that was ever sent over by the Imaum 

 of Muscat to Her Majesty ; and was made 

 a present to the Clerk of the Royal Stables, 

 who sold him at Tattersall's. When it be- 

 came necessary to have a model for the dead 

 horses which Mr. Herring was to have intro- 

 duced into the Battle of Waterloo at the 

 Gallery of Illustration, he sent for Pedro, 

 a black man from Batty's Circus, and had the 

 Arab taught to lie down. With a few 

 lessons he became so complete a trick horse, 

 that Pedro declared he wanted nothing- but 

 youth to beat the Bedas, and other time- 

 honoured pets of the horse ballet, quite out 

 of the field. He looks peeky, and worn now, 

 and his tricks have rather departed from 

 him ; but in his prime, Mr. Herring was 

 followed by a gentleman into a yard in 

 Piccadilly, and had two hundred guineas bid 

 for him there and then. In spite of the 



