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Colonel was sent in he received a special enquiry 

 back with the sketch, to ask if he had flattered him 

 at all, and when he returned, as answer, that he had 

 not, the King never rested till he bought him. 

 " Buy, buy " (like the " Run, run " of Lord Berners to 

 his trainer when he came, over night, to beg that 

 Phosphorus might not start for the Derby) — was all 

 the commission he would deign give. At the royal 

 sale Mr. Tattersall thought it such a shame that 

 the French should get him for a thousand guineas 

 that he bid fifty guineas more and bought him for his 

 own stud farm. Setting aside Emma, the Whisker 

 mares have always been out of the common way. 

 Liverpool, Tearaway, Euclid, Knight of the Whistle, 

 The Era, Mango, Cotherstone, Meteor, Mowerina, 

 Mundig, and Theon are all out of them ; and his 

 daughter Catherina, who ran for 171 races, was at the 

 stud in the thirtieth year of her age. 

 The Sons of Whalebone was as shabby to the eye 

 Whakbone. ^g old Prunella herself. He had rather a 

 Turkish pony look, and was broad and strong, with a 

 shortish neck. His own feet grew very pumiced, and 

 his mares lost their speed early. Unlike Whisker, 

 it is on his sons that he has to rely; and Camel, 

 Waverley, Sir Hercules, Defence, and Stumps, in 

 each of whom respectively his blood has united with 

 Selim, Sir Peter, Wanderer, Rubens, and Delpini, 

 have proved it quite as elastic as his name. There 

 are scarcely any Stumps mares left, and we met with 

 almost the last of this lily-white clan at Sir Tatton's 

 and Mr. Parr's, last year. Save and except a beau- 

 tiful Shorthorn heifer, made up for show, we know of 

 nothing quite so beautiful in nature, or so effective in 

 a painter's fore-ground. The line of Defence, who 

 was rather thick and cobby-looking, has to trust to 

 its mares now, from which Hero, Old England, 

 Andover, Turnus, and Pyrrhus the First sprang. 

 Waverley, whose head and neck helped off rather 



