1 1 8 Silk and Scarlet, 



John's thefts after this fashion were perpetual, and, in 

 fact, he was, perhaps, never quite so great as in the 

 colours of Whittlebury. As the bHnd man said, when, 

 after groping among many colours, he at last felt 

 scarlet, " It stirs my blood like a trumpet!' On all 

 occasions he was a very dashing better, and occa- 

 sionally he was considerably astonished in conse- 

 quence, and never more so than when he got on Coro- 

 nation, and found three minutes after, when every eye 

 was on him in his canter, and he dare not hedge, that 

 he ought to have laid the 500^. to 200/. on his horse, 

 precisely the other way. John's aversion to the name 

 of Ireland was about on a par to that in which he held 

 Gaper, and arose from the firm impression he had of 

 the great amount of man-shooting which goes on 

 there. His great story, about the difference between 

 " paying and receiving," was very characteristic, and 

 pointed a fine moral ; and perhaps a better judge of 

 racing and of two-year-olds especially, on whom latterly 

 he was not so hard as he once was, did not exist any- 

 where. The day he was, perhaps, seen most in his glory 

 by the metropolis, was when after calling at Carlton 

 Terrace, he proceeded through the Hall of William 

 Rufus, with his white cravat and his immortal umbrella, 

 in search of the Premier, in the Commons. The 

 policeman on duty was quite callous to the explana- 

 tion " /;;/ John Day /" and he had to sit on a stone 

 bench, contemplating the cartoons, and reflecting how 

 his lad had won his trial, till Lord Enfield recognised 

 him, and brought him and the noble owner of Iliona 

 together, the result of which was, that his lordship 

 wrote to the right man that time, and John departed 

 in triumph. 

 The two Sam His brother Sam had been for some years 

 Days. 3 dweller near Reading, when he was called 

 from his farm like a second Cincinnatus, to take silk 

 once more ; and so industrious was he, that in spite of 

 his bulk he wasted in his second year from list. 6 lbs. 



