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He, Peter Dalton, that knew a spavined horse, or could detect a windgall better than any man in the county; he, that never was "taken in" by a roarer, nor deceived by a crib-biter, to tell him that he knew nothing of life!

From the existence of the Deity to the effect of a blister on a windgall, through the whole range of stable-thought and horse-talk, there was no subject, speaking generally, on which that mongrel population agreed, except, of course, on one thing—the universal desirability of whiskey.

Of course this made all the difference to the horse I selected—Windgall—who finished second;—as he only gives his best performances in public, and as he doubtless knew he couldn't be seen, he thought it was only a private trial until he got close home, when his gallant effort was too late to be of any use!—at least, this is how I read the result of the race, and who can know more about a horse than the racing-prophet, I should like to know?

On seeing an awkward, three-cornered affair, Which I heard was a racer from Fingal, And hearing him roaring, and whistling an air, I said, he'll be beaten by Windgall.

Poor young Edward was the deceased minor whose early death had wrecked the finest chances the Windgall family craft had ever carried.