154 ^^^^"^ ^^^^ Scai'let, 



over the ground at all. Saucy Boy had them all so 

 pounded, that his rider, Reay of Repository fame, 

 went back a short space, and dismounted to pick up 

 his whip. 



Victories and In Spite of tlicse slight set-offs, the plan 

 End of Jem Hill, j^^d the desired effect, as three horses 

 were claimed on the spot, and Multum in Parvo had 

 as many mares sent him as the Government would 

 permit. The peasants were fit to eat him in their 

 frenzy, and carried Jem Hill, the rider, to scale on 

 their shoulders. What Jem considered a still greater 

 triumph was to come, when the Prefect of the Com- 

 mune insisted on paying the prize in five-franc pieces ; 

 and he might well say to Mr. Phillips, as he staggered 

 out of the tent with them on his back, in a horse- 

 cloth, " Only to tJiinky master^ that I should go and wm 

 more money than I can cany r Next year he won for 

 Mr. Phillips again on The Stoker, when there was 

 as much excitement, and much less to jump ; but 

 with that victory came an objection and a wrangle, 

 and so an end of the whole. Jem did not long sur- 

 vive this abrupt eclipse of his French prospects. He 

 was soon after sent in charge of some horses for the 

 King of Sardinia, which he was to deliver at Bou- 

 logne. In the darkness, at the London Bridge Quay, 

 he slipped between two steamers moored alongside 

 each other ; and no one missed him till a letter 

 arrived to say, that the horses had reached Boulogne 

 by themselves, and with the lip strings not even un- 

 done. No clue was discovered, till the very steamer 

 in which he was to have sailed came back from 

 France, and turned the poor fellow up from among 

 the mud with her paddles, as he lay unnoticed, close 

 by the quay. 



An Interview ^^^^ Belgians have but little taste for 



uith Dick Stock- blood horses ; their Haras at Terverin, 



dale and Maroon. ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ BruSSels, and OncC the 



country seat of the Prince of Orange, has gone to sad 



