196 Silk and Scarlet. 



notice St. Giles's dam, they were shut up in a loose 

 box all night, and a chestnut Derby winner was the 

 result. Next year Isaac Sadler was so determined 

 to have a Tramp, that the same plan was pursued 

 with his mare Defiance ; and Dangerous, another 

 Derby winner, rewarded him as well. 



- A cross between Tramp and a Whisker 



mare produced Liverpool, who was bred 

 by Mr. Watt. That fine old Yorkshire worthy was 

 the first to espy him in his morning rambles, as he 

 was dropped in the Dove-Cote Paddock ; and away he 

 hurried to tell Robert Elrington, assuring him, while 

 the suppressed twinkle of his eye told a very dif- 

 ferent tale, ** It's the zvorst foal yoit ever sazv in your 

 life." Although his loins at three years old made 

 many think that he was a weik horse, they gave up 

 their ideas on that head when they had seen or 

 heard of his race with Consol at Preston. Even- 

 tually he passed from Crutch Robinson's into the 

 Duke of Cleveland's hands, and so to Mr. Ramshay's 

 of Naworth Barns, for a couple of hundred. His 

 forelegs were rather too light to please the Cum- 

 berland farmers, and added to this he was a trifle 

 ragged in his hips and thick in his jowl. 



The British Yeoman was certainly the hand- 

 somest son Liverpool ever got, and like him he was 

 remarkably clean hocked. His promising Derby 

 chance was quite destroyed by a most peculiar seizure. 

 On the setting on of his off arm there came a soft 

 swelling about the size and thickness of a large dish, 

 and another to match above the hock on that side. 

 It looked as if he had been stung by an adder ; and 

 the faculty had not agreed as to the nature of the 

 swelling when it disappeared again. He was accom- 

 panied on many of his Cumberland journeys by the 

 celebrated little Highland Laddie. This renowned 

 teazer was originally sold after running in a pony gig 

 for 21/. i^y., at the rate of 6d. per pound, and was 



