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faintest whisper that might pass between us, would, as 

 he knew from sad experience, rob him the instant he 

 died, and that he was determined to foil them. All 

 was over when we next called, but we learnt that 

 even in his death throes he had been once more with 

 his string at Hampton Wick, and calling for cham- 

 pagne into the weighing-house, to toast a winner. 

 That weary chequered story of eight -and -seventy 

 years was closed at last, and relief, not in-door nor 

 out-door, had come in a far grander shape, as we 

 claimed him from the dead-house, and laid him to his 

 rest on the morning of the longest day. 



A Batch of We care not to go very deep into the 

 Yorkshiremen. ^y riding chronicles of Yorkshire. They 

 would date back to Charles Dawson, who, after 

 running four times in succession on Silvio, second to 

 Dainty Davy, for the Richmond Cup, won it with him 

 next year, when Dainty was out of the way, and 

 christened his training stables after his name. There 

 was one Leonard Jewison, also, who began in 1761, 

 and rode for a quarter of a century for Mr. Peregrine 

 Wentworth, and trained his stud at " The Arras," on 

 the Wolds near Market Weighton, where the Kipling 

 Coates four-mile Plate of 10/. used to be run, on the 

 last Thursday in March. This race day was at one 

 time a great parting reunion for all the coursers and 

 fox-hunters, as it was the last week of hunting ; but 

 the country is no longer, as then, open and unenclosed 

 to Malton, and the Plate has now to be decided along 

 the road. Then there was George Serle, who rode 

 Ambidexter for the Leger (although the lists of the 

 day would persist in saying that Shepherd did), and 

 latterly trained for Sir Mark Sykes, at Marramat, near 

 Sledmere. Garbutt was one of his lads, and had a 

 fine seat, but no head ; and although very resolute on 

 rough horses, he was so severe that owners and 

 trainers hardly liked at last to employ him. John 

 Kirton wound up his endless Cup victories by " getting 



