" The Doncaster Gazette." 177 



and occasionally from London by special 

 train, and give Wilson the word to draw 

 when half the field had gone home. No 

 wonder that caricatures were drawn, and 

 squibs flew gaily about, and that even 

 Leicestershire said it would rather be bled in 

 the purse-vein than have the country hunted 

 gratis in such fashion. Satirical verses failed 

 to sour him. He took the stinor out of their 

 tail by reprinting them at his own private 

 press, and posted them far and wide. On 

 the last day of his Mastership he slipped 

 quietly away to the station, and when they 

 looked for him to give him a parting cheer he 

 had been gone well nigh an hour 



" The honour of being 'the man who be- 

 longs to the Duke,' or 'the Earl,' or 'little 

 Lecturer' was no burden to him. He took 

 quite naturally to the Turf from the first, 

 enfolded under the wing of Danebury. In 

 1862 not six people at Newmarket knew who 

 the slim lad was on the grey cob ; but the 

 Ring soon saw that he was a veritable Hamp- 

 shire ambassador when he put down the 

 money so unflinchingly on a Danebury pot. 

 To John Day's suggestion that in his posi- 

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