ABSTRACT

The newspapers of the day described exactly how " the Squire " was dressed-what he had been living on-how he looked-how, at the word " Aiuay!99 he started like an arrow from a bowhow gallantly Tranby, his favourite racer, stretched himself in his gallop-how, on arriving at his second horse, he vaulted from one saddle to another-how he then flew over the surface of the earth, if possible, faster than before-and how, to the astonishment and amidst the acclamations of thousands of spectators, he at last came in . . . a winner!