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Brompton lanes, led by a little girl, when he had shed 

 the pauper's grey for a few hours on a holiday, with a 

 flower in his button-hole " to show 'em I've been in 

 the country ;" and the year before he died he assured 

 us that he should like to get a match on to walk any 

 man of his age five miles yet. 



Such stories he would tell over and over again of 

 old times. How for instance, in his hunting groom 

 days, he out-manoeuvred the crafty Mat Milton ; how 

 he " wasted" from Hampton to Hyde Park Corner ; 

 how his three terriers killed and ate one of Mr. 

 Grantley Berkeley's best fox-hound whelps at walk ; 

 how General Grosvenor once despatched him to the 

 Newmarket turnpike for a bladder of hog's lard, when 

 his horse's feet had got snow-balled just before a 

 match ; how Robson the trainer looked, "just for all 

 the world," like a clergyman, and seldom did more to 

 a boy than hit him with his black glove ; how Cork 

 and Tiny knew each other 3CX) yards off on the Heath, 

 and instantly desired battle ; how he fed a golden 

 roan Egyptian on tamarinds off Lisbon, and cantered 

 him to try his paces between the guns on deck ; how 

 he spent the anxious night before Waterloo ; how one 

 master shot himself through the head almost in his 

 presence ; and how his only hope of " leaving the 

 house" went for ever when his soldier-son died at 

 Scutari. At last he fell fainting in the heat on his 

 way back early in June, from " The Corn^' where he 

 went once a month to receive a small allowance, left 

 him by the late Mr. Edmund Tattersall, and when we 

 next saw him he was on his death-bed. He dared not 

 speak ; and after handing over his scissors and a few 

 old letters, he would insist on retaining only eighteen- 

 pence out of the {t.\N shillings he had left. When we 

 pressed him for his reason, he stealthily clutched with 

 his hand as he lay, to indicate that the other paupers 

 in the ward, who leant forward and glared savagely in 

 their beds, or hobbled within ear-shot to catch the 



