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fourteen-three ; but as good a little one as ever stepped 

 Unhappily, on pulling up in a race he fell on his head 

 and knees, with Templeman, and put both fetlocks 

 out of joint. He was taken home on a sledge, and 

 won again next year ; but he had to be cast to be 

 fired, and in the struggle he broke his back. 



The Great Lawn near the Old Hall is The Great Lawn 

 the necropolis of Blacklock and the other at Bishop 

 Bishop Burton worthies, and an oak tree Burton, 

 grows from the breast of each. Blacklock and Muta's 

 wave close together ; and two much larger ones, side 

 by side, testify to the memory of Mandane and 

 Altisidora. Blacklock was taken up at the end of 

 six years, and put together by an anatomist. Mr. 

 Watt paid 10/. for a skeleton rider, who yapped his 

 teeth when a string was pulled ; and the spectral pair 

 were exhibited at the agricultural meeting at Beverley. 

 Muta was taken up as well, for the sake of her 

 shoulder, which had set the Pharmacopoeia at de- 

 fiance ; and hence the only tenanted grave of that 

 trio to the left is marked by a mere sapling, which 

 blooms for Nitocris out of Manuella, the last of the 

 old blood. Her near hind hock was so swelled with 

 farcy that the leg gradually became a burden to her. 

 It was the doing of a stable lad ; and although no one 

 could ever discover the exact spot, there was evidence 

 that he had struck her with a fork, out of revenge for 

 not being allowed to go to Newmarket with her. It 

 swelled so much that she had to be brought back 

 when she had got as far as Doncaster, and she never 

 could run again. She was the dam of Birthday by 

 Assault, the last that Mr Watt ever bred ; and soon 

 after its birth, he gave orders that she should be shot 

 it eight o'clock in the morning to a moment, and 

 opened his dressing-room window to hear the report. 

 Birthday was brought up on sugar and milk, and is 

 now a remarkably fine mare. He never saw her after 

 :she was a foal ; and when Scott came to settle about 



