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tossed in great pain. The mysterious off foot 

 enlarged considerably, but there was no post- 

 mortem upon it. He was buried within ten 

 yards of his stable door ; but a few days after 

 they had to dig down to him, as Lord Jersey 

 sent to beg the near fore-foot. His old mate 

 Crucifix, who just survived him a year, is now 

 buried beside him inside the rustic paling of a 

 small flower plot ; and John and Alfred Day 

 have each planted a cedar to their memory. 

 The spot was all blooming with hollyhocks 

 when we passed it last October to take an- 

 other glance at old Crucifix. There she stood, 

 quite wasted and listless, under the wall of a 

 loose box, with withers as sharp as a knife. 

 She had kept in pretty blooming condition 

 till her wonted Stockbridge race leve'e was 

 over, and then she began to fail very fast. 

 Since Chalice, in 1852, she had bred no 

 foal, and always broke at the end of a fort- 

 night. Her great peculiarity was the narrow- 

 ness of her chest ; and hence, in her training, 

 she perpetually suffered from speedy cut. 



" Her legs went within a week after the 

 Oaks race, but the secret never fairly oozed 

 out till the Saturday before the St. Leger. 



