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ticularly valuable, three heifers sired by Monarch bringing over 
$500 apiece. Two years was as long as the Captain could 
abstain from Shorthorn operations, however, and in 1840 he 
once more established his herd with Mahommed as its head. 
But the new herd was shortlived and its excellence hardly up 
to the standard of the original Lady Sarah collection. On Sep- 
tember 22, 1847, the final dispersion took place under the gavel 
of Wittiam WETHERELL (83). 
His athletic achievements were his pride. At a coursing meet- 
ing where he first met HucH Watson, he discovered a man after 
his own heart, and according to Dixon “asked him as if it was 
a highly intellectual treat, ‘Would you like to see me strip 
tonight and feel my muscle?’” He once walked 1,000 miles 
in 1,000 hours on a wager. He drove the “Defiance,” a coach 
in which he had both sporting and financial interest, all the 
miles from London to Aberdeen, some 500, without leaving the 
box. He won thereby a bet of £1,000, and was so flushed with 
victory that upon a friend’s remark that he must be tired he 
rejoined, “J have £1,000 that says I can drive back to London 
again, starting in the morn.” He bred a famous race of game 
fowls, and always backed his birds to the limit for pit victories. 
A close friend epitomizes him as “a great eater, a man of 
fine simple faith and always in condition,” and “The Druid” 
closes his career as follows: 
“On New Year’s Day he had always his friends to dinner, 
and he sat obscured to the chin behind the round of beef which 
two men brought in on a trencher. Mr. KINNEAR was the per- 
petual Vice and everybody made a speech. The Captain’s was 
