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hunting stamp of an almost superannuated son of Old 

 President, whose stock, with their fine brown skins 

 and still finer tempers, have jumped magnificently 

 time out of mind. As regards the second point, we 

 could almost say of them as Captain Barclay used to 

 say of his friend Cribb — " That's the beauty of Tom 

 — you can't make him cross — hit him where and how 

 you like — you'll never meddle with his temper." Ca- 

 millus, who first spread the stud fame of Hamble- 

 tonian, was also the sire of some rare talent in this 

 line, and so were Old Woldsman, Grog, and the re- 

 nowned Tramp, who was not a big but a very even 

 horse. His stock had remarkably fine hunting action, 

 and we have often heard Will Danby recount how his 

 favourite son of Tramp carried him twenty miles to 

 cover one day, when he whipped-in to the Holderness; 

 went through a very fast thing of fifty minutes and 

 home again ; heard the whaw-hoop in two runs, one 

 of them of forty and the other of an hour and fifteen 

 minutes next day, and eighteen miles home to kennel 

 at night ; — and then ask, like a true-born tyke — Can 

 any of your South Country horses beat that ? In fact, 

 he thought this horse better than even his President 

 mare of four hours and twenty minutes' memory in 

 the York hunt. 



Orvile, Grey Orvile, Grey Walton, Sandbeck, 

 Emilian, Young Phantom, Cervantes, and Cerberus, 

 have all sent wiry representatives of their name from 

 Yorkshire to Horncastle ; and Lincolnshire has not 

 been behindhand with Quicksilver, Hippomenes, Pil- 

 grim, Negociator, Robin Hood, Darnley, Bellerophon, 

 and Mandeville. Don Juan, with his strong but some- 

 what inelegant stock, must not be forgotten ; nor 

 Orion, the sire of countless browns with especially 

 broad backs and plain tan-muzzle heads. Catterick, 

 in spite of his bad colour, has also a claim to be re- 

 membered ; and Fernhill and Humphrey are now the 

 Lincolnshire representatives of the stout Venison and 



