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but few to beat him over this course. He retained 

 a memento of his old Derby days in the broken 

 tusk, on the near side ; and he was so shy about 

 his mouth, that to give him physic became almost an 

 impossibility. 



It was long a moot question with The Voyage of 

 Nicholas whether he would have Van Van Tromp. 

 Tromp. This goodliest son of Lanercost was follow- 

 ing Glen Saddel in a gallop on Middleham High 

 Moor, when some gipsies ran to the wall to peep over. 

 The swarthy apparitions made him stop so suddenly, 

 that his suspensory ligament went, and after Mr. Kirby 

 had had him for two seasons, he offered him to 

 Colonel Schrider for 2000 guineas. The answer was 

 that the Emperor had seen Herring's portrait of him, 

 and did not like his neck ; but Mr. Kirby replied that 

 his crest was up now, and the bargain was confirmed. 

 Galanthus and Morgan Rattler, one of the rarest of 

 Lincolnshire hunter sires, went out at the same time, 

 consigned to Prince Galitzin, in a Hull steamer. 

 They were at sea nearly thirty hours, in such a fearful 

 gale, that the captain finding himself overweighted 

 with deck-luggage, was within an ace of throwing all 

 three overboard. The bulwarks were broken in ; two 

 horses of minor renown were washed from their stalls 

 against the cabin windows ; and a sow farrowed 

 eleven, amid all the wild hubbub beneath Morgan 

 Rattler, before they could put back to port. That 

 devoted horse had been to Germany once before, and 

 kept his sea-legs well ; but the two others, in addition 

 to their chafed tails and halter-grazed noses, were 

 most dreadfully distressed. After two days on shore, 

 and having escaped the lot of Judge Advocate, who 

 died of inflammation, and was thrown over in the 

 Cattegat, they reached Moscow in safety. The late 

 Emperor was all for Van Tromp to the last ; but, as 

 in England, he has not proved himself the surest foal- 

 getter. 



