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Lord Lonsdale's hounds. He used to ride a grey 

 horse ; there are many pictures of them ; he'd be 

 fifteen-three, and could carry a ton weight, if that 

 were all. I've seen the old chap go like mad for 

 twenty minutes ; he'd jump, if he was reg'lar put 

 up, over a turnip hurdle ; he looked nearly as 

 big as Daniel Lambert. I knew Dan, and he 

 knew me. I met with him at Leicester and Stam- 

 ford races. We had races twice a day for three days 

 at Stamford ; eleven o'clock, then to the ordinary at 

 two. He was dressed like a groom, and lived quite 

 private ; he'd hardly be quite at his full growth then ; 

 there'd not be much more than forty stone of him ; 

 he was above fifty latterly. Many's the time I've 

 talked to him in Stamford cock-pit ; he could set a 

 cock uncommon well, for all he could hardly get near 

 the table, for his bulk ; he was a cheery man in com- 

 pany, but shyish of being looked at. I've been 

 alonff with Parson Harvey scores of ^ u 



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times. I was at Tattersall s, and saw him 

 buy an unbroke three-year-old colt ; he puts on a 

 halter, and leads it out of the yard himself; then he 

 says, " r II give it back, or I'll ride it back^' and in less 

 than two hours he did. He just bluffed him, and got 

 a curb-bridle ; all people got round him — quite sur- 

 prised. They always said there was a touch of the 

 Old Gentleman about him, he could do anything with 

 horses ; I've known women as could, if they had a 

 nerve. I've used oil of rhodium and elecampane 

 scores of times, in a powder, myself; it's Horse Taming 

 something like two guineas an ounce. Drugs. 

 Stallion-warts ground make a wonderful powder ; it 

 smells just like Eau-de-Cologne : rub it over their 

 noses ; then wet your finger in your mouth, and rub 

 it over the roofs of their mouths. I've quieted dozens 

 that way. Why I've known these things, and taking 

 up the leg, these sixty years, and people talk about 

 them in the papers as if they were new. There's not 



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