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prejudice against the Arabs, he was wonder- 

 fully stout, and when his master drove him 

 from Camberwell to Stevenage and back, 

 about seventy-five miles in one day, to paint 

 The Switcher and other steeple-chase cracks 

 for Lord Strathmore, he was fresher than the 

 English black, who was in the phaeton by 

 his side, and had never shirked his work by 

 comparison before. Her Majesty, hearing 

 of Mr. Herring's severe asthma, which for 

 some time quite disabled him from leaving 

 home, sent down three of her horses for 

 him to paint. They included Korseed, a 

 white Arab, Bagdad, a black charger which 

 belonged to the late Prince Albert, and Said, 

 the Arab on which Mr. Meyer instructed the 

 Royal children. The latter is among the 

 Osborne collection, with a background of 

 white land and Arab tents, in the composi- 

 tion of which Mr. David Roberts, R.A., gave 

 Mr. Herring the advantage of all his Eastern 

 lore. 



"The painting-room almost adjoins the 

 stable, but it has been little used since his 

 son's death. A model of a coach in a case 

 rests upon some packing boxes, and the 



