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Bartholomew, with a slight preference for the latter. 

 Arthur Pavis could ride six-ten to the last. He was 

 a quick and natty style of man, but flighty and gay 

 in his manner, dreadfully conceited, from having been 

 made so much of, and having had, for so many years, 

 a light-weight monopoly. He won a great many 

 races on very good horses, but he was comparatively 

 weak in the saddle, little dependence could be placed 

 on his judgment in trials, and his death let up a 

 very much better man in Nat. Like Sam Rogers, 

 he never won any of " the three," but he always 

 asserted that George Edwards, who was his brother- 

 in-law, struck Caravan in the Phosphorus Derby, 

 and prevented him winning, an assertion which 

 George, who did not win lo/. by the race, as stoutly 

 denied. 



If he only kept hold of their heads. Tommy Lye, 

 Tommy Lye's rare knowledge of pace Francis, and 

 made him, like Wakefield, most dan- ^^^^' 

 gerous in heats. This the lads knew right well ; and 

 it was always their aim to go fiddling fiercely up 

 to his girths, and if by their gammon they could 

 succeed in frightening him into getting his hand — or, 

 as they phrased it, "his fishing-rod" — up, it was gene- 

 rally all over with him. George Francis, who was a 

 very strong and clever rider, completely broke up his 

 charter in heats ; and, " Come, Mr. Tommy, none of 

 your dodging this journey'' was the answer we have 

 heard him make over and over again, when Tommy 

 came to the post with his knees almost up to the 

 horse's withers, and his left hand dangling down, and 

 begged " Yon boys to mind and keep straight, and well 

 out at the turns'' At last Tommy got so terrified 

 that the two compromised the matter, and arranged 

 to give each other their places when they were beat. 

 Francis was originally engaged by John Scott at New- 

 market, through the intervention of Martin Starling, 

 when he was passing through it with a drove ; and 



