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it, and they finished on the sheep-hills behind. On 

 the other side of the road, west of the church, is the 

 " Waterloo Ground," with abundance of ditches ; but 

 the trials have generally come off at Brougham. Mr. 

 Thompson lived about half a mile from Kirkhouse, at 

 Farlam Hall, whose beautiful garden, with its rich 

 variations of ground and flower-plots, and its brook, 

 where the water-cress grows, might well divide his 

 allegiance with the long-tails. The latter taste was 

 in-bred, as his father always loved a brace of grey- 

 hounds, and won the first Brampton Cup in 1830 with 

 Burke. Mr. Thompson began in 1846 with a borrowed 

 dog, Clarke's Tindal, at Lytham. He was immensely 

 fast, and on this occasion he had no less than eight 

 undecided courses, and ran up after all. In due time 

 Mr. Thompson began to fight for his own hand, and 

 bred a Brampton Cup winner, Titmouse, by John 

 James Henderson's Nutman, from Merrybird (sister 

 to Emigration). She was a wonderfully clever 391b. 

 brindle, rather long on the leg, and like Lobelia for 

 lightness — " no substance below, and all muscle on 

 the back." Plough-land was her forte, and she ran 

 remarkably well in Scotland, where she divided with 

 Jacobite. 



It was the running of Mariner when a puppy at the 

 Caledonian meeting, when he was put out in his first 

 course, that decided Mr. Thompson to send Titmouse 

 to him ; but all of the litter save Truth died. Truth 

 (481bs.) was very great over the Ashdown hills ; but 

 she lost her third course in the Waterloo Cup, where 

 the Cumberland men backed her for a hatful of 

 money. Poor John Gill looked the picture of misery 

 on the bank when the fatal flag went up. They have 

 always had a fancy for "Thompson's nomination," 

 and their allegiance has been sorely tried, as Tempest, 

 the first that Mr. Thompson ever ran in the Waterloo 

 Cup, was fourth, Theatre Royal third, and Trovatore 

 fourth. Fate was certainly most coy with Farlam. 



