Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-04-28

Messrs. Badentram, OF Presteign, Radnorshire,
Wales, (England,) and there l saw him. In
deed, his, history throughout isso remarkable
that | feel a desire to relate it, with your DER.
Cultivator, true 10 the letter.
One day a stranger called at farm house i'm
that part Of the country to inquire for board.
He was u citizen Of London, a jeweller, and
had been ordered into the country BY his phy-
stefan, for the benefit of air and mild diet.
The farmer observed that they had not been
accustomed 70 take boarders, but thought per
haps he might as well remain where he WAS.
and try how he liked their accommodations.
On the stranger inquiring the terms. the far
mer said that defended upon how they liked
each other, andfat the end of a month. when
the stranger offered to pay, the farmer said his
wife and he had not yet determined upon what
IT should be. In another month the health of
the stranger being reinstated. he again asked
for his bill, when the farmer informed him that
he and his wife calculated they were abou,
quits. as his society and conversation had been
to them of quite the value of what he had re-
ceived; and finding that nothing he could saw
would n'tnr that determinations, the stranger
took his leave, promising that he would some
dav send them q present from London.
Not long after, a man led into the farm-yard.
an old blind mare of the highest blood and ned.
igree. heavy in by foal by the best horse i'm
England. Phantom: an accompanying letter re-
questing that she might never b, sold, but he
returned, if the farmer should grow weary of
keeping her: limiting also. If the foal should
prove a horse colt, that his name be called
Spectre. In due time the mare brought a
horse foal, which, with the extreme care be-
slowed upon him. grew up a remarkably fine
animal. being entered to run for q plate at two
years old, which he won with the greatest
ease 10 himself. Not so however to the rider,
who, with the utmost difficulty, could man.
age TO keep himself on his back by holding ON
to the pommel Of the saddle: bride, whip, and
spurs being totally useless and out of the ques- |
ton, for with nose to the ground, and his feet
at every stroke appearing above his head, the
back a semi-circle at one moment and an in
verted elipsis at the next. it would nave been
easier 10 sit on a camelin full trotl no other per-
son b ing able to~accomplish the feat of sitting
hlm-togufde him being q vain and useless at
Tempt. After this he, with the same rider, won
everything he started for, until on the eve of
a very imrortant race. in which he was backed
by the whole country at immense odds: a
stranger offered one of his owners (there were
two persons who had shares i'm him) a very
large sun OF money if he would permit his
horse to be beaten! The temptation was too
great to be withstood, although the man knew
his partner had risked his all upon him, as al
so many more of his personal friends; the only
way to accomplish ii being to overweight him.
This was accordingly done. and on striving
against a saddle full of shot, the generous and
noble animal sprained his shoulder and broke
down, his rid T aftarward declaring that even
then he had more work to make him lose, than
he ever had to make him win. And while in
this broken down condition he won three sill
yer cups at three different meetings; the lastat
the great race at Worcester, still fresh in the
memory Of Thousands, where he distaiiced al
most IN whole field.
After this he was Withdrawn from the turf.
and was kepta as a stud horse, and as such | saw
him with his blind dam, in an adjoining pad
dock, again in foal at the age of twenty-eieht
years! Many noble horses, the best in thai,
part OF the country, Were produced from this
stock, the owner making an annual sale BIZ
auction, chiefly OF mltch-horsos for the car
riages of the nobility, many pairs bringing
from fifteen hundred to- two thousand dollars
at three years old; the last lot being put up be-
Ing Spectre himself, with the intent however.
oil buying him in privately, and this was done
NOR tt!dn once at the price Of five thousand
dollars.
When the stranger left the farm house for
Lohdon, he desired the servant girl to inform
him when about to get married; this she did.
aud received as a present, q valuable diamond
ring; which, ifyou will allow me to suppose,
she sold Tor a sum OF money sufficient to stock
Il small farm, upon which she and her husband
resided for many years in contentent and hap
piness, you will then have a finale i'm keeping
with the main story, for the truth OF which /
will vouch.