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probability that he would have held his own muji 

 longer. There was a toughness about the Beirams, 

 Ilex, and Midas, which could bring them home in a 

 strong-run race over the Ditch-in, while the Sultans 

 and Sultanas would be running with their mouths open 

 long before the Turn of the Lands. Augustus was 

 rather a brilliant member of the family, but he fought 

 sadly in his gallop ; and Ishmael was the founder of a 

 fine stamp of jumpers, though none of them have been 

 equal to Burgundy, as far as build went. The latter 

 was just the lengthy, short-legged sort of sire that 

 farmers require. Augur is a grandson of Ishmael, 

 through Nickname ; and although his stock have per- 

 haps no great liberty about them, they are, if not 

 quick enough to train, dark chestnut fourteen-stone 

 hunters, ready to keep up the jumping charter. 



Of all the . countless Sultans he had 

 through his hands, Tiny Edwards most 

 loved Glencoe, a low-backed chestnut with great 

 speed, and the rare Tramp staying power about him. 

 His ends were very fine, and Robinson used to look 

 like a man seated in a valley. It was not, however, 

 as the pantomimes have it, " The Valley of Calm 

 Delight," when Plenipo was at hand, and poor 

 Conolly's good-natured drawling tones were heard 

 about a length behind, ''Now, Master Jemmy, Fm 

 hei'e ; I can come when I'm wanted'' He was sold to 

 a Mr. Richards, of George Town, Kentucky, and died 

 in the August of '57, in his twenty-seventh year. 

 With all his ancient pluck, he stood up against spas- 

 modic colic and lung fever for ten days ; and kept on 

 his feet the last three, till he fell and died quite 

 exhausted with bleeding at the nose. His picture, 

 " one of Troye's best efforts in anatomy and colour- 

 ing," was quite an object of interest at the United 

 States Fair at Louisville ; and if his son, Pryor, had 

 not died here, they looked forward to getting h'm to 

 supply his place in " the Blue Grass Region." 



