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intimate friend, and confirmed him in his 

 determination to embark upon that literary 

 career which subsequently made him so 

 famous. 



It was not long before young Henry Dixon 

 was tempted into print. Beginning his adult 

 life in an Attorney's office, he resembled his 

 old friend Mr. Daley (long the Clerk of 

 the Course at Carlisle), in that neither 

 of them " enjoyed calf skin." Mr. Daley 

 took to " bossing" the race-course in his 

 native town, and to cultivating his fine bari- 

 tone voice for the duties and rewards of a 

 professional singer ; while it was through 

 the advice of James White, or ''Martingale," 

 of Doncaster, that Dixon himself became a 

 public writer. 



The following extract from " Saddle and 

 Sirloin," a work which was published in 

 1870, contains a handsome tribute to " Mar- 

 tingale," and is a favourable specimen of 

 "The Druid's" best manner: — 



"None loved the Town Moor better than 

 poor James White, or 'Martingale.' Thirty 

 years ago he was in his zenith, with his book 

 on ' Country Scenes,' and as a contributor to 



