The Life of Fred Archer 147 
heard that all the London doctors could not put Archer together 
again, so well, or so badly, had the savage Muley Edris done his 
work, then Chapman bethought himself of Hutton. Now 
Hutton was a bone-setter — in the eyes of the faculty a " quack." 
But Archer, although he had not come to the end of his own and 
Lord Falmouth's resources, had yet spent a good deal of time 
and money on physicians, and he hstened when Bob Chapman 
discoursed on the genius of this irregular, if effective, surgeon. 
The result was that he went to Hutton, who cured him, as he 
had done his predecessor, Fred Webb. 
Mr. John Dawson once said : " We don't get so very excited 
about racing, or not often, for it's so in the ordinary course of 
things for us to see races. The most exciting races I ever saw 
were when Archer won the Derby on Bend Or and the Man- 
chester Cup on Valour. Not long before the Derby a horse 
down here had bitten Archer's arm very badly, and Fred went 
up from Cheltenham (he was down there at home, for he could 
do nothing) to one swagger specialist after another to get his 
arm treated. Lord Falmouth was seeing after him then, and 
he got the very best advice ; but nothing seemed to do it 
any good. Have you heard of Hutton, the bone-setter ? Fred 
went to him, and he got him well enough to ride in next to no 
time. 
" Fred Webb could tell you of a yet more wonderful cure 
than that even — his own. He had been to all sorts of doctors 
for a fearfully bad arm, and at last he went to Hutton with it. 
He had his coat over the weU arm, for he was quite incapable of 
taking it off himself to show his arm to the bone-setter, or of 
dressing himself afterwards. Hutton just stripped the bandages 
down off his arm and pulled it out straight and back and straight 
and back again. He hurt him a good deal, but something had 
been out of place, and Hutton had worked it into place again. 
Webb put on his coat himself and went out clothed and in his 
right mind, leaving the bandages behind. But before he went 
he asked Hutton what his charge would be, and Hutton said : 
