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route to Newmarket with Chancellor and Bras de Fer, 

 that he had his first Leicestershire mount from his 

 lordship. This taste of old times made him rather 

 dislike the monotony of a life in the paddocks, and 

 from being stud-groom he soon succeeded Allen at the 

 head of his lordship's hunting stud. As a lady's pilot 

 across country he was first-rate, and he used to reflect 

 proudly on the brilliant riding of the Earl's family. 

 He always persisted that he knew many ladies whose 

 judgment was quite equal to gentlemen's with hounds, 

 and that they " mauled their horses about far less." 



All his actions were quick, and his punctuality a 

 proverb. Sixty miles on his hack and a hundred by 

 rail, when he was looking after a horse for the Earl, 

 were nothing to him ; and if he stopped at an inn, 

 and went into the bar for a little warm beer, he would 

 drink it and fall asleep, leaving word that he was to 

 be awoke " in seven minutes." Training a horse for 

 his lordship at Heaton Park, and beating one with the 

 Whitewall polish on it, was a great joy to him ; and 

 he did not fail to have his joke with Mr. Scott about 

 home training, when he was performing his annual 

 task of driving him and his brother Bill in the Irish 

 car, to meet the coach. At these races he generally 

 acted both as starter and course clearer, and he had 

 very little sleep during that week. " Hard necks" 

 and " sensible heads," " great hind-quarters," and 

 " short legs" he regarded as the constituent elements 

 of a "regular napper," among which his lordship's 

 Brilliant, Cannon Ball, Roland the Brave, The Rose, 

 Pigeon, the Piebald mare, Spectre, and the grey pony 

 ranked very high with him. There was also the hack 

 Telegraph, which was sold and bought back some 

 time after ; and if Godwin had loved him in life, 

 his admiration of him rose to blood heat at last, 

 as he broke away from the grave-side and had a 

 gallop about the pleasure-grounds just before he was 

 shot. 



