3 1 8 The Post and the Paddock. 



years of age I mounted it, and set off for the National 

 Fair at Washington, held in May, 1846. There I re- 

 ceived great encouragement, and was introduced to 

 most of the distinguished men." The great difficulty 

 with which his English licensee (Mr. Edwin Osborne, 

 of Savile-row) had to contend with in Joe's case, was 

 the contraction and stiffness of the knee, which bent 

 the stump quite back, and at first sight seemed to 

 render matters hopeless. By great perseverance, 

 however, the stump has been " got out" consi- 

 derably, and now, instead of being bent under the 

 knee, it acts bravely in a socket of its own. A 

 lever was applied all night for weeks (a mere trifle 

 after the firing), to keep the joint in position, and 

 even the whips have an occasional turn at " rubbing 

 in" and " drawing out" morning and evening. As it 

 still seems "outward bound," two or three months 

 will no doubt see him walking better than he has ever 

 done since his accident ; and he showed on his Seigh- 

 ford day (Jan. 19th) how he can still ride to hounds. 

 The foot is fastened to the stirrup by a little bit of 

 elastic, which would snap \i there was any fall, and to 

 see him on horseback, it is impossible to detect, 

 except from a slight tendency to lean to the off side, 

 that he has a false leg at all. 



But we must not forget the other great coevals of 

 Pevorett and his game rider — Lord Delamere on his 

 chestnut Wynnstay, Sir Richard Brooke on his Irish 

 rat-tailed mare, whom Tom Hewitt, of Liverpool, 

 brought over from MuUingar fair ; Mr. Leycester, of 

 Toft, on his Astbury horse ; Mr. Rowland Warburton 

 on his fifteen-hand thorough-breds ; Captain France 

 on his steeple-chase mare Brenda ; and Mr. Gleig, as 

 patient and as certain to be thereabouts at a finish 

 as Sam Chifney, on his Kangaroo. This rare animal 

 was fully 16 hands, with an eye and ear as good as its 

 Australian namesake, and was afterwards to be seen 

 grazing, after his triumphs, in the park at Trentham. 



