94 Life and Times of " The Druid!' 



original sketch of the picture which he took 

 of the beautiful Attila, just before the Derby 

 winner went abroad, is the only tenant of the 

 easel, but the sketch, like that fatal journey, 

 was never completed. 



" Mr. Herring was then about sixty-seven, 

 or just the mean in age between his old 

 friends, John and William Scott. Doncaster 

 and its Town Moor associations naturally 

 whetted his zeal for the brush long before he 

 took to it as a profession, and many a horse 

 and mail-coach sketched by him crept on to 

 tavern walls and sign-posts. His earliest 

 anatomy study was the fractured leg of 

 Spartan, one of whose small bones near 

 the pastern was completely pulverised by his 

 break-down ; and Smolensko and Comus 

 were the racers on which his ' 'prentice 

 hand ' was tried. 



"A gigantic 'Horse Fair' adorns the 

 lobby, which is, as Mr. Herring's pictures 

 invariably are, ' all daylight.' The Mail is 

 again in requisition, following in the wake of 

 a gig whose horse trots right out of the 

 picture, and whose driver casts a glance at 

 the troops of nags and stallions which are 



