2 io Saddle and Sirloin. 



averaged 215 guineas. A Knowsley- Violet colt (870 

 guineas) and a St. Albans-Hecate colt (700 guineas) 

 were the best prices. Although he only weighed six 

 stone, and his countenance was almost that of a corpse, 

 he was out in his Bath chair throughout that August 

 afternoon. As he sat there, in his pith hat and his 

 drab great coat — which might have folded twice round 

 him — there was a painful fixedness in his eye which 

 told too truly that all hope was gone. Still he was 

 very cheerful, and had a smile and a shake of the 

 hand for every friend, and occasionally joined in as 

 " the loving cup" went round. He also sent up a 

 catalogue correction to Mr. Tattersall, and even 

 mounted for a few minutes, when the Knowsley colt 

 was selling, into a barouche, along with Mr. Morris 

 and Mr. Hodgman. It was strange to see one who 

 was so soon to pass away standing like a pale spectre 

 amongst his fellow men, and quietly gazing for the 

 last time at a scene, the marrow of those in which he 

 had so often pushed his way to the front at Doncaster 

 and Eltham in the days of his lusty manhood. No 

 one ever expected to see him again, and it was an- 

 nounced that he had determined to sell everything in 

 a month. During the York week he made a great 

 point of old friends riding up to see him that he might 

 say " good-bye." On the sale-night he was so worn 

 out that his attendants thought he was dying as they 

 bore him upstairs, but once there, and after he had 

 taken some grouse and port wine, his indomitable 

 spirit revived. Throughout the whole of the next 

 month, the little excitement of speculating in his own 

 mind on what his blood-stock would fetch, seemed to 

 do him good, and when the ring was once more formed 

 in his yard on the Saturday after Doncaster races, he 

 seemed much better and quite gay among his friends 

 in a barouche. 



It was a remarkable sale. Erne made 1 100 guineas 

 and Tunstall Maid 1000 guineas, and these two, with 



