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REPLY OF MR. ALEXANDER GRAY, JUN. 
tance of seventy miles from Springfield. While on the road the 
foal was again attacked with severe purging (no doubt arising 
from the exercise and altered state of the milk), insomuch so, as 
I am informed, that the man who drove them despaired of the 
foal ever reaching its destination ; that, on its arrival, it was 
treated in a manner something similar to what I have described, 
but with the assistance of a gentle dose of physic, when the 
purging ceased ; that no balls were passed, and that the foal in 
a few days was all right again. 
Now here, Mr. Editor, were the same causes applied (exercise 
and altered state of milk), but what is the consequence? Why, 
not the same result : there were no balls formed, at least none 
passed : but I think I can account for it — he had not the ad- 
vantage of a Mr. Cleland, to pour port-wine , rhubarb , and mag- 
nesia, down his throat in indefinite quantities every two hours, 
but was treated by Mr. John Holloway, Sir James Boswell’s 
private trainer, a man of good common sense. 
In course of time the colt was put in training; but in the 
words of his trainer, Triumph, as he was now called, proved to 
be a flat-sided, washy brute ; he was therefore withdrawn from 
the racing-stables, and sent to Doncaster last year to be sold, 
where he was eventually knocked down at the hammer by Mr. 
Tilburn for the sum of thirteen pounds. 
I am afraid, Mr. Editor, that I am encroaching too much on 
your valuable periodical, and that you may accuse me of forget- 
ting the old adage, Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur; 1 will there- 
fore conclude with a respectful hint to Mr. Cleland, of whom 
I now take leave, advising him that, when the cacoethes scri- 
bendi again comes upon him, to be a little more minute in de- 
scribing his wonderful cures, and give them earlier to the profes- 
sion, rather than allow six years to elapse between each ; he will 
then be enabled to give every man his due : for I would contemn 
the individual who attempts to build his fame at another’s ex- 
pense, and would recommend Mr. Cleland to pull the beam out 
of his own eye before he attempts to find one in his neighbour’s. 
I am, dear Sir, 
Your’s sincerely, 
A. G. 
