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as Isaac Walker, of Streatlam Castle ; 

 Timothy Forshaw,of Knowsley Park; Tweed, 

 of Leybourne Grange ; and Markham, who, 

 having served General Anson and Baron 

 Mayer de Rothschild, ended by presiding 

 over Lord Rosebery's paddocks at Ment- 

 more ; little thought that the lightest words 

 falling from their lips would, perhaps, be 

 perpetuated by " The Druid" in print. His 

 description of the way in which Wild Dayrell 

 came into the world betwixt night and morn- 

 ing at Littlecote, and of the old butler who 

 insisted upon taking the foal up in his arms, 

 so that he might say he had carried a Derby 

 winner, will never be surpassed ; nor that of 

 the mad pranks in which the Prince Regent 

 indulged at Newmarket, when he mis- 

 chievously shoved a French Prince of the 

 Blood Royal into the water. Another ver- 

 sion of the same story is given in ''Tommy 

 Moore's Diary " : — 



" 26th August, 1825. — Lord Essex told 

 me the anecdote of the Prince of Wales 

 pitching the Abbe St. Phar, half-brother to 

 the Duke of Orleans, into a fish-pond at 

 Newmarket. The Abbe had some method 



