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second from the Warwickshire, and the third from the 

 Pytcheley. However, the running-mantle of Paddy- 

 has not been moth-eaten, as these three can run their 

 fifty miles in a day yet with hounds, and have made 

 something handsome by opening gates, taking lame 

 hounds home, and doing sundry other hunting-field 

 offices. *• Billy Priest" has never worn shoes since his 

 childhood ; and if he were to come into a fortune to- 

 morrow, on condition that he would wear them, it is 

 most doubtful whether he would consent to do so. 

 There is such a strange fascination about the life, that 

 it is averred of " Dumbie" (whose power of panto- 

 mime and picking out winners is something quite 

 miraculous) that a good sum of money has been left 

 him, but that nothing can induce him to look after 

 it. "Jemmy from Town" died in London, and we 

 do not know that " Farem Kiddy," "Peter Rolt," 

 " Black Stock," and " Old Billy," have any peculiar 

 traits about them. The latter was card seller extra- 

 ordinary to Lords Exeter and Jersey, and has way- 

 laid them and served them regularly ever since they 

 were quite young turfites. " Jemmy and Mary Lei- 

 cester," and " Charles and Eliza Crow," are also 

 well-known characters ; but " Black Jemmy" rather 

 fell into the background when he had an accident to 

 his leg, and though he was soon happily convalescent, 

 he is no longer the ubiquitous merry African he was 

 in his green cutaway and tartan-tie days. Jemmy's 

 one consuming passion has long been his love for 

 Lord Eglinton's stud, the dispersion of which he took 

 sorely to heart. It is, in fact, out of a spirit of pure 

 devotion to Scotland and her Earl, that this sporting 

 exile has of late years enveloped himself in a grey 

 plaid. Whenever his lordship had a Derby favourite, 

 he professed to put his pot on him throughout the 

 entire winter, and gracefully preceded him to the 

 place of starting ; and what is more, if he was beaten, 

 Jemmy never forsook him. When his great hero, the 



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