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stud. Cadiz, the sire of Hobgoblin, was a bay by 

 Ebor, and would have done enough for Eastbury even 

 if he had only got The Pony out of a pony mare. 

 This wonderful fourteen-two animal carried Tread- 

 well, who was about twelve-four with his saddle, 

 through nearly three hundred runs in their eight 

 seasons ; and be it a cramped or a flying country, she 

 only gave him one fall. It was, however, on Murphy 

 (another Irish horse) that he made his celebrated 

 fourteen-feet drop in the Buckland country. Mr. 

 Farquharson also sent several mares to Sir Hercules, 

 when Mr. Sydney Herbert had him in the neighbour- 

 hood ; and his rare jumping blood is still represented 

 in the Langton paddock by Testator out of Variety, 

 who was an own brother to Mabel, Darling, Kathleen, 

 and Fancy, the four picked mares of the stud. It 

 was on one of the two last, or Botanist, that Mn 

 Farquharson was latterly seen at the coverside. 



Mr.Farquhar- "^ ^\^ from on€ of them unfortunately 

 son's Last Public prevented him from sharing in the closing 

 ^^^" weeks of his glorious career as master ; 



and hence we missed him from among the white 

 collars and the staunch century of farmers who 

 showed up in obedience to the last announcement of 

 '* Mr. Farquharson's Hounds " at Hyde. We could 

 not bear to lose this great closing day, but it proved 

 dull enough, even without seeing a future Dorsetshire 

 master carried pale and bleeding from the field. 

 There were two foxes in Newfoundland, and they 

 went flashing away with one over the bogs, and bent 

 to the right along the bold heather platforms by 

 Heffleton Wood, and so to ground. " Treadwell on 

 The Pony," and looking the very incarnation of one 

 of those calm, passionless huntsmen who might have 

 made an Ironside swear that the sport was orthodox, 

 then held them along the edge of some wheat, to cut 

 off the line of the second fox ; and when they dis- 

 appeared over a heather ridge, to try again we 



