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shoulder as a signal, and on " The Governor" went 

 with Paulowitz. Thus Ben's horse never got a pull 

 from end to end ; but after all, he was only beaten a 

 neck. Ben made up his mind from that hour that 

 Scott was " a sadly forrard young man y" but he never 

 seemed to bear him any malice. 



Billy Pierse's Billy Pierse had a triumph of a similar 

 Riding Dodges, character against the boys over Richmond. 

 Finding that it was hopeless to beat them on his old 

 horse with all the weight, he conceived the bold idea 

 of making every one of them run away, and before he 

 had got round the top end of the Stand, and half-way 

 down the hill, every horse but his own had the bit in 

 his teeth, and he had only to watch them come back 

 to him one by one, and win as he liked. The flexor 

 muscle of his arm was a wonder of anatomy ; he could 

 hold anything breathing with those fat little hands, 

 and finished as strong as a lion. " Kneeing the lads," 

 was another favourite pastime of his, and he tried it 

 on so hard with Mangles at Catterick, that he almost 

 drove him through the hedge on to the Boroughbridge 

 road. A good deal of cross and jostle work was 

 overlooked in those days ; but Mangles thought that 

 he might at least have allowed him to stop in the race- 

 course. " Nation stat ve thee, Billy T he remarked 

 when they had got out of the weighing tent; ''if it 

 wasn't thee rd complain; thou migJit have killed yen!' 

 " Well ! how are yer, old acqneniajice f" was Billy's 

 regular salutation to his friends, who cited his maxims 

 as oracles, and he used to mention it as an unspeak- 

 able source of comfort to him, that " Fvedoneas many 

 as have done me!' This must be understood in strictly 

 a Yorkshire sense, as owners knew their man too well 

 to insult him, by even hinting their wish that he would, 

 as he phr. .ed it, " do an uncivil thing" for them. He 

 never wearied in talking of Manuella and the great bet 

 of 20,000/. to 5/., which the Duke of Cleveland laid 

 him, that he would not win the Derby, Leger, and 



