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to the long gallop, and each watcher silently steals 

 away to another watch-tower among the gorse. John 

 Scott in his phaeton, with Holmes, in his green coat, 

 and marching as erect as one of the Old Guard in the 

 van, a friend on horseback at his side, and a lemon- 

 and-white terrier keeping a sharp look out from the 

 back seat, complete the Whitewall procession, as it 

 adjourns for an hour to the tan gallop, whither we care 

 not to follow them. We would fain linger at the little 

 red stand, which has thrown out a couple of wings like 

 cart sheds, and as we muse on old times, we feel 

 more happy than the little ex-jockey, who hid himself 

 " in the morning grey" on its leads, and was dis- 

 turbed in his dream of coming bliss, by the irruption 

 of that crafty Leadbitter, Jacob the blacksmith, with 

 the cock-bag. 



We can excuse him for trying it on, BiiiScottasa 

 as a trial, in the zenith of Bill Scott, who Tryer. 

 generally rode 8st. lolbs. in them, would take a man 

 a life-time to forget. If his language was remarkable 

 when Mr. Bowes pressed him to say what livery his 

 lad was to wear, it was still more so when he had a lot 

 of lads on loose ones to do the work to the turn, and 

 was lecturing them upon their seat and hand, at the 

 post. So highly did he think of Nelson's knowledge 

 of pace, that he never liked to try without him ; and 

 although George Izard (who died of consumption 

 early) seldom rode in pubHc, he was at one time 

 another essential. Bill's delight was to be right behind 

 in the middle, to measure his horses to the chains, and 

 making " White Willie" the ending post in his own 

 calculations, to send them racing home. We will first 

 mark Bill on Don John, barely beating George Izard 

 by a neck in a mile on the Nonplus dam colt, a bril- 

 liant, but half-silly son of Velocipede, who was soon 

 after found dead in his box. Then came the Don's 

 turn to be defeated as far, by the punchy-looking 

 Cobham, before the Derby, in which the latter seemed 



