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last three or four days he lay down and tossed in great 

 pain. Matter seemed to come from every part of 

 him, including his eyes ; and the mysterious off fore- 

 foot enlarged considerably, but there was no post 

 mortem upon it. He was buried within ten yards of 

 his stable door ; and but a few days after they had to 

 dig down to him, as Lord Jersey sent to beg the near 

 forefoot. His old mate Crucifix, who just sur- 

 vived him a year, is now buried beside him inside the 

 rustic paling of a small flower plot ; and John and 

 Alfred Day have each planted a cedar to their me- 

 mory. The spot was all blooming with hollyhocks 

 when we passed it in October '58, to take another 

 glance at old Crucifix. There she stood, quite wasted 

 and listless, under the wall of a loose box, with withers 

 as sharp as a knife. She had kept in pretty blooming 

 condition till her wonted Stockbridge race levee was 

 over, and then she began to fail very fast. Since 

 Chalice, in 1852, she had bred no foal, and always 

 broke at the end of a fortnight. Her great peculiarity 

 was the narrowness of her chest ; and hence, in her 

 training, she perpetually suffered from speedy cut. 



Her legs went within a week after the Oaks race, 

 but the secret never fairly oozed out, till the Saturday 

 before the St. Leger. Looking thinner than she was 

 in her " sky-blue and white cap" days, and with her 

 great hips and deep brisket more prominently marked 

 than ever, she seemed like the last turf relic of Lord 

 George, whose heart was at one time never far from 

 the Danebury paddocks. He spent no less than 

 fifteen hundred over them in three years in bone-dust 

 alone, and spread some of it himself with his coat off, 

 while John Day junior wheeled the barrow. A neigh- 

 bouring parson espied him at his labours, and said 

 that he could " blow off stick top-dressing with my 

 pocket-handkerchief r Of course some one was kind 

 enough to repeat it to his lordship ; and at a dinner 

 party in the neighbourhood shortly after, he told with 



