3 1 6 Life and Times of '* The Druid!' 



the North country lingo, than the subjoined 

 sketch of a famous Yorkshire character : — 



" Mark Plews was a mixture of blacksmith 

 and farmer, and if there was a Richmond 

 horse in the St. Leger, he invariably stood it. 

 When Vingt'un from Belle Isle was all the 

 rage, Mark and his wife got on without tell- 

 ing each other, he to win ^25 for himself, 

 and she £/\. in partnership with Mrs. Pierse. 

 These daring ventures got bruited about, and 

 hence when the town express, which was 

 managed on state occasions by sending horses 

 on to Ferrybridge the day before, arrived at 

 midnight, with the news of the defeat, one of 

 the party who sat up for it could think of no 

 other consolation than hoaxing 'Old Mark.' 

 The window was not far from the ground, 

 and the delegate was enabled to report, word 

 for word, the matrimonial colloquy, which 

 followed the shout of 4 Vingt-un s won! 

 Mark was furious when the truth came out 

 in the morning, and threatened in vain to 

 walk all over Yorkshire, if he could only 

 discover the owner of the voice. 



"He always delivered his mind about man 

 or horse, without fear or favour ; and was 



