The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1866.

THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET
(Entrance 160, Piccadilly).
Set Dinners as usual. The carte varied, choice, and mode-
rate. Turtle, thick and clear, always ready.
The Billiard Rooms now conducted by J. Roberts, the
charppion.

:'uppers until One a.m.
Elegant Saloon Dining Items for Ladies.

rr H E OXFOitI),
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.

The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited'.
EXTRA NOVELTIES. Operatic Selections performed
by Misses Russell, Barry,,;FitzHenry; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
lludi, Bury, Dalton, and Tivoli, with full band and chorus,
conducted by Mr: F. JONG ILMAIN S.

C.)merly, Burlesque. Gymnastic, and other performances,
by all the mo.t talented Foreion and English artistes, in-
clueing Mr. lIAItItY SIDNEY and Mr. J. W. ADAMS.
•

Messrs. Durialt and Davies in their Nig:zer ecceatricit'e,,
&c. ttc. All Excursionists to London should pay a visit to
this establishment,

Admission—Area, ed.; stalls and balcony, Is ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.
Open every evening at 8.
Engagement of the talented JULIETTI and JULIA
DELEPIER RE, Violinists to all the Northern Courts, aged
respectively nine and thirteen years. Juliette will
also perform a Fantasia on her extraordinary instrument
called the Xtlophone, composed of Bois et Paille. They will
appear Every Evening at Nine o'clock.

WESTO N' S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
- HOLBORN.

Under New Management.
Proprietors—Messrs. Sweasey and Holland.
Grand Selections from ROB ROY and MACBETH by 50
vocalists and a band of 30, conducted by P. Corti.
AR U R LLOYD'S new songs are nightly received with
deafening rounds of applause —JOLLY NASH, the mirthful
GEORti INA SUITII• ON, the much admired Serio-Comic—
EMMA. WEST, Burlesque Actress and Serio-Comic—lm-
mense successfof JAMES HEMMINGS in his Wonderful
olobe entertainment, and 14 STAR MINSTRELS—W.
WEST (Stump Orator), Principal Comedian—Champion
Dancer, JOE ALLEN—Songs, Duets, Glees, and Choruses
by a company of first-class talented artistes never before
heard in Negro Minstrelsy.

Box-office open from 10 to 4.
Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past.

ARGYLL ROOMS.- GRAND CASINO,
Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re-
decorated, arc now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert
and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luca CURTI. Manager,
N. GRENET.

Admission. to Promenade, One Shilling.
Reserved Seats, Two Shillings.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
ITJL BAKER-STREET.

NEW EDI TIONS.—A MARRIAGE GROUP of their
Royal Highnesses the PRINCESS HELENA and PRINCE
CHRISTIAN; also a variety of COURT DRESSES of the
most magnificent and costly description. Several life-size
Portrait MroalA of the most distinguished Men of the Day
are likewise to be seen.

Admittance, is. ;• children, under ten, half-price ; extra
rooms, 6d.

Open from 11 a in. till 10 p.m.

THE CULTIVATION of TEA in the East
Indies is an important feature, and the EAST INDI.
TEA. COM PANY have, on account of its great strength and
exquisite flavour, promoted its sale by every means. The
Company are now selling Assam, Cachar, Darjeeling, &c., at
the reduced duty—viz., from 2s. Bd. to 3s. Bd. per lb, and
China Teas as usual at Is. 4d. per lb. and upwards.—Ware-
houses, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate.

FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real
Malt," 19s. per zallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear-
ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered
to the trade for the sale of this gennina old spirit, which is
coming into universal consumption through England.
For price lists apply at Offices, 14, Strand, London, W.C.
Established in Grafton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780.

JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the
world."—London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C.,
next the " Times."

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork, be to announce that they are able to supply the
trade with their celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and
to take orders in bond and for exportation, at their offices, 7,
Printing-house-square, London, .C., the only house in the
square not occupied by the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies
bring the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial
markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of
Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their
whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. per case over the next
best, and Is. 6d per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest
quotation. Always on hand a large supply of very old
mellow whisky in the finest condition. matured in sherry
casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the
most reasonable terms.

STARCH MANUFACTURERS
TO IL R. IL TILE PRINCESS OP WALES.
GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used in the Royal Laundry,

AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862.
Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &c..tc.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, eon misting of a new and elegant assort-
me at of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlestioks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &0., in Italian,
Alabaster, Paean, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o.
Imported and manufactured by JAM MS TE T NNAN, Mine-
ralorist to her Sikiesty,l4.9, Strand, W.C., London.
51r. Tennant arratrzes elementary oollectionb of ROCKS,
StiNERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they wilt greatly facilitate
fire, paLe!esting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
„
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gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—DO
matter at what age. The Agna Amarelia has nonoof the
properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfeot colour. Price one guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 61 Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re-
spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John
Govnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales.

LIEBIG'S EXTRACT of MEAT, for the im-
medial e production of Beet Tea, Soups, and Gravies,
manufactured on the establishment of Robert Tooth, Esq., of
Sydney, Australia, may now be obtained of the consignees,
AL L N and HAN BURYS, Plough-court, Lombard-street,
London. This Extract contains the soluble constituents of
thirty times its weight of fresh meat; it is nutritious, con-
venient, economical, unaltered by time or Climate. Two oz.
pots, 2.. 6d. ; halt-pound jars, 9s. 6d.; one pound jars, 185.

KEATIN G'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY-
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This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un-
rivalled in destroying. Fleas, Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches,
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species of Insect. Sportsmen will find this an invaluable
remedy for destroying. Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies
for their Pet Dogs. Being the Original Importer of this
now invaluable article, which has found so great a sale that
it has tempted others to vend a so-called article, the Public
are therefore cautioned to observe that the Packets of the
Genuine Powder bear the autograph of Thomas Keating.
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36 Also in Bottles with,Bellows ls. 6d. and as. each, by
THOMAS KEATING, Chemist, 79, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-
YARD, LONDON, E.C.

THE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGE 3TION.
NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi-
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for Indigestion, which i the cause of nearly all the diseases
to w:lich we are subject, being a medicine so uniformly grate-
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operation, sale under any circumstances, and thousands of
persons can now bear testimony to the benefits to be derived
from their use, as they have been a never-tailing Family
Friend for upwards of 20 years.
Sold in bottles at le. 14d., 2s. 9d., and lls. each, in every
town in the kingdom.
CAUTION.

Be sure and ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be
persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which
have sprung up in consequence of the success of NORTON'S
CAMOMILE PILLS.

HOIII,ELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
ar22,earnreegstluyirseolicited for fitting up the TRAINING

_
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY liO?dE. £l,OOO required.
WM. WILLI/UM, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street. W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
£A,OOO, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay for one boy each year. '
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothburv, and 214, Hig h Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East ; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

pROVIDENCE ROWS NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have boon given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have
to spend night after night ill the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rov. I.).„CiumatT, 22,
FiuoDury-circus 8.0.

jOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
td TOOTU PASTI is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price is. 6d.--lied Bull Wharf, v 3, Upper
Thames-street, London.

THE AGRA AND MASTERMAN'S BANK
(Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that the First Div*dend
of ss. in the will be PAID at No. 35, Nicholas-lane. Lom-
b J•cl-street, ou and after MONDAY, the 17th Sept,
between the hours of 10 and E o'clock, to ail Depositors and
CreditorA upon Current Account., and also all Bill-holders
whose claims have beet duly regi•ter din Lood.n.
Payment will be made in the following order :
Monday and sday,
Tue
Sept
lIILL-1.10 LDERS' IIIP! • On
17th and
DE POSIT anti CUP RENT
ACCOUNT LON DuN, NO3. I
18th
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I to 1,500
DEPOSIT ACCOUNT
day, 19th and 20th Sept.
EDIN ttURG 11, Nos. 1 to 40 ,)
DEPOSIT and CURRENT)
ACCOUNTS, LONDON, Nos I
1,501 to 2,862
DEPOSIT 4= 7.A CCOUNT S„r 21st and 22d Sept.
EDINBURGII, Nos, 401 to
732
All Dividends not applied for on the days above-mnn-
Honed will be paid on application at the Bank, on and atter
the 24th September, between the hours of 10 and 2 o'clock.
Upgery Creditor will receive a Circular Notice, which must
beWbducett, together with ail Bills of Exchange, Circular
Notes, Deposit Receipts, or Certificates of Indebtedness.

Bill-holders who have not yet sent in their Bills for Rezia-
tration are requested to do so forthwith, in order that they
may receive the First Dividend as soon as possible; for such
purpose a further List will be prepared and payment of
Dividend made about the middle of October, notice of which
will be duly given.
H. H. CANNAN, Liquidator.
12th September, 1866.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
TENDERS will be received at the undermentioned
Office until Twelve o'clock noon on the 29th September, for
the supply of
FORAGE,

for the use qf her Majesty's Troops stationed in the follow-
ing places, Wu Ist .November, 1864, to 31st October, 1867.

LONDON DISTRICT.
1. Hyde Parkensington, Regent's Park, and Horse
Guards.
2. Hounslow and- Kneller hlaiL

3. Hampton Cour.t.
4. Windsor.

5. Brighton.

6. San-dhure.

7. Enfield,.

Separate Tenders must be made for each of the above-
mentioned Stations or Barracks. as separately grouped and
numbered. _ _ _ _ _

Forma of Tender, initialed and numberel, and Conditions
of Contract may be obtained on application at this Office, by
letter addressed to the Senior Commissariat Officer of the
District, or in person, between the hours of tea and four
o'clock, and rip Tender will be entertained unless made upon
the Form so obtalnei.

Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up
and sicced, aid no Tender will be noticed unless delivered
at the undermention(d Office, under closed envelope (marked
Tender" on the outside), before .w,lvc o'clock noon on the
29th September inst.

Commissariat Oftbe, 5, New-street, Spring-gardens,
London, S.W.. Sept. 10, 3866.

ASPHALTE ROOFING FELT,

ONE PENNY per Square Foot.

CRO GG- N and C 0., Manufacturers,
J 63, New Earl-street, ) London
34, Bread-street, , E.C.

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COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES,
and BUSINESSES.
FURNESS and CO.'S List on application.
Particulars for insertion received until the 27th of the
month at their
AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES,
5, Agar-street, Strand, W.C., and nearly opposite the
Charing Cross Railway Station.

CHOCOLATE.-MF.NIER'S FRENCH.

CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast.

CROCOLAT-AMNMR is pure, wholesome, and
delicious.

IVIENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE.
Warehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
Sold everywhere.

DEAFNESS.—The ORGANIC VIBRATOR.—
It fits into the ear, not perceptible; the unpleasant
sensation of singing noises in the head is entirely removed.
It affords immediate relief to deaf persons, and enables them
to hear distinctly at church and public assemb ies. Jo:very
other kind of hearing instrument—Messrs. SOLOMON, 39,
Albemarle-street. Piccadilly.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER, FAILING REM t..DY.—Pre-
oared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluab:e to all who
,utier from bilious and liver ftomplaints, indigestion, wind.
4pasms, giddiness, dizzinerAt of the eyes, am For habitual
ostlveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
the blood, they are truly excellent; mild In their opera-
t' on and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lamberts 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,is. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. ltd. Be sure to ask for Pr.
Scott's Bilious mid Liver Pills. The genuine arc a square
greet package. with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.

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Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church-
row, Savoy, Strand, W.C.

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114. GUN AND RIFLE MANUFACTURERS,

502, New Oxford-street, London,
Have always an Extensive Assortment of MUZZLE, and
BREECH-LOADING GUNS, on the most approved sys-
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class Second-hand Muzzle and Breech-loading Guns at mp-
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THE SQUIRE.

(From thv Saturday Review.)

On the 2d of August died in London, where he
was born, George Osbaldeston, " the best sports-
man of any age or country." The fox-hunters of
England, who gave to Mr. Osbaldeston this title,
were at least competent to decide who was the fore-
most among themselves. his pre-eminence seems
to have been attained by the combination of know-
ledge in hunting with skill in horsemanship. He
made hunting the business of his life, and followed
it with an energy and devotion which are seldom
equalled in more serious pursuits. When he was a
master of hounds, he would ride all night in order li
to be at the meet next day. Having originally the
frame of a " pocket Hercules," and being habituated
to the sportsman's labours from early years, his
power of enduring fatigue became almost incredible.
He backed himself to ride 200 miles in ten hours,
and he did the distance in less than nine hours.
He was a capital shot ; in the cricket-field he was
a first-rate performer both with bat and ball ; and
he was moderately successful on the turf. His best
racehorse was Rifleman, who was inexplicably
beaten by Saucebox for the St. Leger in 1855. But
it was in " the Shires" that he gained his-fame, and
the sayings and doings of " the Squire," as Master
of the Quorn and afterwards of the Pytchley, will
be remembered as long as the love of field sports is
felt by Englishmen.
The following particulars of the life of this cele-
brated sportsman are derived from a biographical
article which appeared in Baily's Magazine of Sports
and Pastimes for March, 1861. We are • indebted
to the publishers of that magazine, not only for the
facts which are stated in it, but also for the cour-
teous loan of the only copy now in their possession
of the number which contains the article. Mr.
Osbaldeston was born in 1787. His father lived
near Scarborough, and although the son was, to use
Swift's phrase, "dropped" in London, he may be
properly counted as a Yorkshireman. Losing his
father at six years of age, he went to reside with
his mother at Bath, where he took his first riding
lessons. From Bath he was removed to Eton, where
his larking disposition " brought him into frequent
collisionwith the authorities" in a manner which need
not be more particularly described. On leaving Eton
he was placed uuder the care of Dr. Carr, Vicar
of Brighton, who was afterwards elevated to the
See of Chichester, but not, we believe, in recogni-
tion of his services in enabling Mr. Osbaldeston to
matriculate. He did matriculate as a gentleman
commoner at Brasenose. The biographer mentions
that he had little to learn in the hunting-field when
he went up, but he does not mention whether he had
taken a degree when he went down. Possibly the
case of Mr. Osbaldeston resembled that of a Cam-
bridge undergraduate of more recent times, who was
heard to say, "If the examiners would only give me
something to do with my hands or my feet, I could
get through well enough," but who could not write
a correct account of the working of the common pump,
although he was able to take up a pot of beer with his
foot and drink out of it. Having quitted Oxford, Mr.
Osbaldeston devoted himself, without literary inter-
ruption, to the business of fox-hunting. That he was
well bred for his work may be inferred from an anec-
dote of his mother, who, being told that her son had
been hurt in hunting, at a time when she was
keenly interested in a Yorkshire election, answered,
" Don't talk to me about my son, he knows how
to fall well enough. How goes the poll ?" He
hunted the .Burton country in Lincolnshire for five
years. Thence he went to Nottinghamshire, and he
was afterwards successively master of the Ather-
stone, the Queen, and the Pytchley. The fame of
Tom Sebright, who was first whip when he had the
Quorn, was only second to his own. " His reign
in Leicestershire has ever been regarded as the
golden age of the chase."

At the same time that he was master of the
Pytchley, he hunted the Thurlow country in Suf-
folk for two seasons, going through the fatigue of
travelling all night and meeting the hounds on al-
ternate mornings. His career as master of hounds
FicArliMitl;Wri thirty-five years. LiALZ'LqF,c,,te-chase
between Clasher and Clinker, he, being at the time
High-Sheriff of Yorkshire, rode against Dick
Christian. Ile was less successful as a jockey
on the fiat. His riding of Rush at Heaton Park
involved him in a duel with Lord George Bentinck.
On the first day of the races Rush ran in
the Trial Stakes, and, says the biographer, " from
some cause or other, into which we will not inquire
too closely, he was nowhere." Although, however,
Rush ran badly on the first day, he won the Cup
on the second day ; and Lord George, who had laid
against him, applied strong language to the affair.
Ilence arose a duel, which was happily terminated
without spilling of blood. It would have been in-
deed a pity if a pistol-ball had interfered with the
Squire's capacity for performing such an exploit as
his " great match at Newmarket." The wager was
a thousand even that he did not, with an unlimited
number of horses, ride 200 miles in ten hours. The
match was fixed for the Houghton Meeting in 1831,
over a course of four miles. " The Squire's prepa-
ration simply consisted of galloping 65 miles of a
morning, which generally took him about two hours
and a half, and the remainder of the day he spent in
shooting partridges for the relaxation of his muscles."
The adversary of Time in this match was then in
his 47th year. He used 28 horses, and did the dis-
tance in sevenhours, nineteen minutes, four seconds,
or, including stoppages, in eight hours forty-two
minutes. He was able to do full justice to a good
dinner after his performance. Another and even
more severe feat was his riding to a ball at Cam-
bridge and back between two days' hunting in
Northamptonshire, when he was master of the
Pytchley. As he was as active in a ball-room as
elsewhere, he was thus in almost incessant move-
ment for two days and a night. He was one of the
best cricketers of his day, and " introduced cricket
into Yorkshire." He has been known to kill 98
pheasants out of 100 shots. In his 75th year, al-
though he had declined out-door sports, he was
almost as good at the billiard-table as ever.
To complete the above sketch of the Squire's life
we cannot do better than transcribe from that popu-
lar book, Post and Paddock, the admirable descrip-
tion which Dick Christian dictated to " The Druid"
of the match which he rode against Mr. Osbalde-
ston

Clinker's and Clasher's was a great match ; they
said it was 1,500 gs. a-side. They sent for me the
night before, did Capt. White and Capt. Ross, and
locked me into their room ! then they gave me their
orders ; they says, " We mean you to wait, Dick ;"
I said, " You'd better let me let the horse go along,
gentlemen, and not upset him ; he'll take a deal
more out of himself by waiting." So I got them
persuaded round. Old Driver the groom was out-
side, and he comes up to me—" What do they
slay? What do you want to wait for ?" So I told
him I was to go along, and that pleased him, it did.
We thought it was all right then. We weighed at
Dalby, the Squire and I—bless me! I never was in
such condition—and away we trotted to Gartree
Hill. They were walking the horses about, and
Capt. Ross be says to me, " Clinker looks well.
"He looks too well, Captain," I said. Then he
lifted me up, and he tells me the orders were changed,
and I must wait. " It's giving away a certain ty,,,
says I, " and if I get a fall then I am all behind."
But it was no manner of use talking. Sir Vincent
Cotton and Mr. Gilmour they started us, and Mr.
Maher he was umpire. We rode twelve stone
a-piece ; I was in tartan, and the Squire, of course
he'd be in green. When we were at the post, he
says, " Now, Christian—I know what your orders
are—l do ask one thing ; don't jump on me if I
fall." I said, " I'll give you my word, Squire,' I
won't." The gentlemen they could hardly keep
with us, and some of them had two or three horses
fixed. We were almost touching each other over
Sharplands, and just before the road, I says,