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great age to whom all the other deer paid homage, obeying all his behests, and allowing him even to gore to death offenders against his authority. When he reached extreme old age the monarch remained almost entirely by the banks of the lake where the grass grew thickest and greenest, and where he could drink without having to walk far. It is even said that his special followers used to bring him leaves and chewed grass, and waited upon him with undeviating loyalty till the last.

A little further south, at Leatherhead, where the "nousling" Mole slips between the trees, and just by the bridge, stands an old inn, now the Running Horse, an ale house, that has for hundreds of years opened its doors to thirsty and dusty travellers. This is where Eleanor Rummynge, the famous ale wife lived, upon whom Skelton once wrote one of his rough and ready satires in jolting verse, not unlike what Rabelais might have written. The enemy of Wolsey describes the old landlady,

Footed like a plane,
Legged like a crane;
In her furred flocket,
And grey russet rocket.

Her huke of Lincoln green-
It had been hers I ween
More than forty year.
She breweth nappy ale,
And maketh pot sale
To travellers and tinkers,
To sweaters, to swynkers,
To all good ale drinkers,
That will nothing spare,
But drink till they stare,
And bring themselves bare.

And then, in his reckless steeplechase way, the rough poet sketches Eleanor's gossips with almost Chaucerian breadth and more than Rabelais' coarseness, as they come in with eggs, and wool, and London pins, and rabbit-skins, aud strings of beads, to barter for the dame's ale.

There is still extant a curious old wood-cut of ugly, jovial Eleanor holding an ale-pot in either hand, with below the following inscription;

When Skelton wore the laurel crown,
My ale put all the ale wives down.

And here at Leatherhead, where Judge Jeffreys once hid his ugly head when his time of trouble came, the crow feels a duty to give a word to the peculiarities of that strange and weird river, the Mole, whom topographical Drayton describes, in rather an extravagant allegory, as beloved by the Thames :

But as they thus in pomp came sporting on the shole,
'Gainst Hampton Court he meets the soft and gentle Mole,
Whose eye so pierced his breast.

The parents of Master Thames refuse their consent, but the lad is obstinate:

But Thames would hardly on; oft turning back to show,
From his much-loved Mole, how he was loath to go.

The parents, still obdurate, raise hills to shut in their wilful daughter; but all in vain ; Mole is so artful:

Mole digs herself a path by working day and night,
(According to her name) to show her nature right;

And underneath the earth for three miles' space doth creep,
Till, gotten out of sight, far from her mother's keep,
Her fore-intended course the wanton nymph doth run,
As longing to embrace old Tame and Isis' son.

The river is said to derive its name from the Celtic word melyn, a mill (in Doomsday Book it is noted as turning twenty mills); but it is just as likely that it was first called the Mole from its singular tendency to burrow. It springs from a cluster of little rivulets on the borders of Sussex that meet at Gatwick, in Surrey, and, coursing under the arches of Kinnersley Bridge, push on for the leafy vale of Mickleham. There is an erroneous notion prevalent that the river Mole suddenly dives into the earth, disappears, and re-emerges at a spot further on. Two of the swallows, as they are called, can be seen near the Fridley meadows, and others near the little picturesque roadside inn at Burford Bridge, where Keats wrote the latter part of his Endymion. These swallows, into which the Mole soaks rather than dives, are really occasioned by the river as it swirls round bends of the hills, washing away the mud, sand, and softer strata from under the more resisting and less impressionable chalk. The underground channels continue beneath these cavities. Gossipping Aubrey, a contemporary of the excellent Evelyn,' says that in his time a great pit, thirty feet deep, and with running water at the bottom of it, opened one night near the Mole. Defoe mentions a party of gentlemen damming up this river, the water suddenly sinking all away; the experimenters caught in the dry fields a vast quantity of fish.-All the Year Round.

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At Highfield Paddocks, on Saturday, September 25th, by Messrs. Tattersall :

MR. G. MATHER'S STUD.
BROOD MARES AND FOALS.

GS.

Euphorbia by Touchwood, out of Lady Abbess by Surplice; served by The Prime
Minister (Lord Rosslyn)

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Isilia by Newminster, out of Isis by Slane; served by Knowsley (Mr Blenk iron)
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Imposture by Iago, our of Duchess of Kent by Belshazzar; served by Bel Demonio (Mr
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Ch e foal by Trumpeter, out of Imposture (Marquis of Anglesey)

Lilac by Touchwood, out of Tamarisk by Birkenhead; served by The Prime Minister (Mr Dumbleton)

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Bf foal by The Prime Minister, out of Lilac (Mr Dumbleton)
Lady Grace by St Albans, out of Lurley by Orlando; served by Bel Demonio (Mr
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Marigold by Ninus, out of a Pyrrhus the First mare; served by The Prime Minister
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Be by Wild Dayrell, out of Marigold (Mr Mavor)
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The Prime Minister by Melbourne, out of Pantalonade by Pantaloon (Mr Brentnall)
Bel Demonio by Weatherbit, out of Augusta by Birdcatcher (Mr J Day)...
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By Messrs. Tattersall, at Newmarket in the First October Meeting:

Dryad by Cape Flyaway, out of Woodnymph, 3 yrs (Captain James)
Electricity by Thunderbolt, out of Lady Kingston, 3 yrs (Mr J Dawson)
Elferon by Weatherbit, out of Fayaway, 2 yrs (Mr J Dawson)
Master Walter by Saunterer, out of Reconnaissance, 2 yrs (Mr Bromsgrove)
Filou by Trumpeter, out of Sharp Practice, 2 yrs (Mr J Dawson)

Goodwood by Rataplan, out of Amanda, 5 yrs (Mr Godding)...
Jerry Hawthorn by The Marquis, out of Sadie, 3 yrs (Mr G Angell)
Birthday by Ben Webster, out of Ladylike, 3 yrs (Mr Moorhouse)

Achiever by Citadel, out of Cerintha, 3 yrs (Mr J Abel)
Hopeless by Warlock, out of Merry Sunshine, 3 yrs (Mr J Abel)
First Lord by Lord Clifden, out of Polianthus, 2 yrs (Mr McDonogh)

At Albert Gate, on Monday, October 4th:

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Truce by Amsterdam, out of Tryst, 2 yrs (Mr Baily)

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At Newmarket in the Second October Meeting:

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Alma Mater by Oxford, out of Whist, 3 yrs (Mr Simpson)
Meander by Saunterer, out of Yarra-Yarra, 2 yrs (Mr Turner)
Chesnut filly by Warlock, out of Goodwood's dam, 2 yrs (Mr Stirk)

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"There he sat, and, as I thought, expounding the law and the prophets, until on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse."-BRACEBRIDGE HALL.

WAY BILL:- Mems of the Month-Racing: Liverpool and Shrews. bury Meetings-Lord Glasgow's Stallions-Coursing of the Month-Dr. Grant and the Otter-hounds-Billiards-The Surrey Foot Beagles and the Thames Hare and Hounds

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RACING season of singular flatness has come to an end; and Voltigeur, whose stock have been making hits of this kind throughout, has dropped in for the last good handicap with Hymen. Among the four-year-olds and upwards Blue Gown has distinguished himself at weight for age, whenever he has come fresh to the post, but the threeyear-olds have been a sorry lot. The Middle Park sifted the two-yearolds to a nicety, but still we have seen nothing among them half the race-horse, to our eye, that Stanley is, and so we believe it will be proved in practice. Ely's stock were very few, and did not do much ; King John's did nearly everything of a kind that was asked of them; Lord Clifden's earned a right for a further trial; and Blair Athol's made little way. Next season we shall see the Gladiateur two-yearolds, the Duke and Savernake yearlings, and The Earl and Lord Lyon foals. Sir Joseph Hawley's vigour in descending on his assailants and listening to no treaty, has astonished them not a little. It will serve to correct that facile habit of attributing fraud to everybody, which too many writers possess; and it is rather fine to note how pompously some, who have been foremost in that line of business, and do not happen to be caught now, declaim on its evils, and abet Sir Joseph. The most gratifying event of the month has been the announcement that the Eaton yellow jacket and black cap which the present Marquis's grandsire made so famous with Touchstone, Launcelot, Satirist, and a score of others at John Scott's or in private, is coming out once more. No one loved the sport so much as the racing Marquis. He would stay at Doncaster a week before and a week after the races, just to be on the scene of the contests and enjoy the pleasures of anticipation and retrospection. The Eaton paddocks have turned out a Derby, an Oaks, and three St. Leger winners already, and we trust that they have not lost the patent.

The Ring have been draining the racing-cup to its dregs as usual. The November meetings add as little to the prestige of racing, as Mr. Boucicault does to boating, when the retired prize-fighter Sam Boker trains the Oxford crew on a bench. Well may Oxford men hate the very name of "Formosa!" Last November was marked by the death of the Marquis of Hastings. This year our obituary only tells of Lord Canterbury. That handsome but somewhat effeminate and prematurely worn-out face has been familiar to race-goers for many a year, but he took no rank, so to speak, and was not a member of the Jockey Club, Boating has produced some fine healthy contests, and

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