Derby between Smolensko 'and the field, and
an unfortunate gentleman, backing the field to
a large amount, had not sufficient firmness of
mind to bear up against the consequence of
his own imprudence. A few days, however,
before the race, a report getting abroad that
the horse was lame, and he being seen with-
out one of his shoes, Sir Charles Bunbury
took and won five and six hundred pounds to
ten three times over. The betting soon re-
turned to its former state. At this time the
newspapers were filled with Smolensko, and
he was by them represented as the speediest
horse which had appeared since Eclipse, and
" unlike Eclipse only in his coolness and
want of driving." All the world went to
Epsom to witness the performance of this new
Eclipse. On his return to London, he was
ordered from Tattersall's, for the inspection
of his Royal Highness the Regent. Many
persons were desirous of purchasing this
horse, and there seems no doubt that four or
five thousand pounds might have been ob-
tained, had the proprietor been desirous to
part with him. On the approach of the Egham
meeting, the public papers were again full of
Smolensko, and a turnpikeman on the road
declared, that, in twenty years, he had no*
seen such crowds pass his gate, of carriage
company, horse, and foot, the latter of all
descriptions, and all for the purpose of gett-
ing a sight of the famous black horse. Many
had come eighteen or twenty miles on foot,
returning through the gate, till two o'clock in
the morning. Crowds gathered round him on
the course, and he was then exhibited to her
Majesty the Queen and the Princesses at the
royal stand. A man actually offered Sir
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nse o: Vjs horse, to make a show of ; and,
there is no doubt but that Sir Charles, could
he have done such a thing, might have made
five hundred pounds by exhibiting him in
London. Among the curious tattle at Egham,
on the subject of this wonderful horse, it
went about that, the day before the race, he
had been stinted of his meat and water, ac-
cording to the old system ; most probably a
hoax of the groom, by way of answer to some
sage inquiry ; it, however, reached the ears
of Sir Charles, who remarked to his informant
that, should a servant of his make so gross a
breach of his orders, " he would never eat
any more of his beef and pudding." It was
reported Sir Charles challenged all England,
offering to take four pounds and run his horse
against any horse of his year, his horse not to
take a sweat. Smolensko was one of the
healthiest, quietest, and best tempered horses
that ever was trained ; about sixteen hands
and a half high, full brother to Thunderbolt,
got by Sorcerer, a son of Trumpator, and his
pedigree is filled with our oldest and highest
racing blood.



THE SPORTING DUKE AND THE CURATE.

Many years since, when the accomplished
Duke of Nivernois was ambassador to England,
he was going to lord Townsend's seat, at
Rainham, in Norfolk, on a private visit, en
dishabille, and with only one servant, when
he was obliged by a very heavy shower to
stop at a farm-house in the way. The master
of the house was a clergyman, who, to a poor
curacy, added the care of a few scholars in
the neighbourhood, which, in all, might make
his living about eighty pounds a year : this
was all he hud to maintain a wife and six
children. When the duke alighted, the cler-
gyman not knowing his rank, begged him to
come in and dry himself, which the other ac-
cepted by borrowing a pair of old worsted
stockings and slippers, and warming himself
by a good fire. After some conversation the
duke observed an old chess-board hanging
up, and, as he was passionately fond of that
game, he asked the clergyman "whether he
could play. The latter told him that he could
play pretty tolerably, but found it difficult in
that part of the country to get an antagonist.
" I am your man," says the duke. " With all
my heart," answers the clergyman ; " and if
you will stay and take pot-luck, I will see if
I cannot beat you." The day continuing
rainy, the duke accepted his offerj when his
antagonist played so much better that he won
every game. This was so far from fretting
the duke, that he was pleased to meet a man
who could give him so much entertainment
at his favorite game. He accordingly
enquired into the state of his family affairs,
and, making a memorandum of his address,
without discovering his title, thanked him and
departed.



Some months elapsed, and the clergyman
never thought of the matter, when, one even-
ing a footman rode up to the door, and pre-
sented him with a note " The Duke de Ni-
vernois' compliments wait on the Rev. Mr. ,
and, as a remembrance for the good drubbing
he gave him at chess, begs that he will accept

the living of , worth 400 per annum ;

and that he will wait upon his Grace the
Duke of Newcastle, on Friday next, to thank
him for the same."

The good clergyman was some time before
he could imagine it to be any more than a jest,
and hesitated to obey the mandate ; but, as
his wife insisted on his making a trial, he
went up to town, and, to his unspeakable
satisfaction, found the contents of the note
literally true.



SILVER HORSE SHOES.

It is mentioned by Beckman that when the
Marquis of Tuscany, one of the richest princes
of his time, went to meet Beatrix, his bride
about the year 1038, his whole train were so
magnificently decorated, that his horses were
shod, not with iron, but with silver. The
nails even were of the same metal ; and when
any of them dropped out they belonged to
those who found them. It is well known that
an ambassador from England to France once
indulged in a similar extravagance, to exhibit
his opulence and generosity ; having had his
horse shod with silver shoes, so slightly at-
tached, that, by purposely curvetting the
animal, they were shaken off, and allowed to
be picked up by the populace.



THE OLD SHEPHERD'S DOG.
BY DR. WALCOT.

The old Shepherd's dog, like his master, was grey,
His teeth all departed, and feeble his tongue ;

Yet where'er Corin went, he was follow'd by TVav
Thus happy through life did they hobble along

When fatigued, on the grass the Shepherd would lie,
For a nap in the sun 'midst his slumbers so sweet,

His faithful companion crawl'd constantly nigh
Plac'd his head on his lap, or lay down at his feet.

When Winter was heard on the hill and the plain,
A^d torrents descended, and cold was the wind ;

If Corin went forth 'mid the tempest and rain
Tray scorn'd to be left in the chimney behind.

At length in the straw Tray made his last bed :
^ For vain, against Death, is the stoutest endeavour;
To lick Cor tn's hand he rear'd up his weak head ;
Then fell back, clos'd his eyes, and ah ! clos'd them
for ever I

Not long after Tray did the Shepherd remain,

Who oft o'er his grave with true sorrow would bend,

And, when dying, thus feebly was heard the poo*

swain,
< 0, bury me, neighbours, beside my old Friend 1'



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28;




SPORTING AT SEA:

Or, the PET MONKEY giving chase to the Ship's Crew !

" Monkey's allowance, more kicks than halfpence."



To such men as the Jolly Tars of old England,
who at times are some thousands of miles from
their dear native home, their wives and chil-
dren, and whose exertions day after day are
confined as it were within the small space of
a few hundred yards, any thing in the shape
of a bit of fun to drive away unwelcome
thoughts, a mere trifle, under such circum-
stances, must operate upon the feelings like
new life to them j or, as Jack Jolly sings :

There's nothing goes wrong when the grog's mixed

right,

And 1 never looks dull when the liquor looks bright ;
Though my head it grows heavy, uiy heela they go
light

And I likes fun and humour,
1 likes fun and humour

Tol de rol liddie le ri do-
Yes, shipmates, 1 likes fuu and humour.
19.



We Tars are all for fun and glee !

fl I need not dwell on the common-place
tricksi of a nautical monkey (observes Captain
Basil Hall), as they must be well known to
every one; such as catching hold of the end
of the sail makers' ball of twine, and paying
the whole overboard, hand over hand, from a
secure station in the rigging ; or his stealing
the boatswain's silver call, and letting it drop
from the end of the cathead : or his getting
into one of the cabin ports, and tearing up the
captain's letters, a trick at which even the
stately skipper is obliged to laugh.

" One of our monkey's grand amusements
was to watch some one arranging his clothes
in his bag. After the stowage was completed
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steal round, untie the strings, and, having
opened the mouth of the bag, would draw
forth in succession every article of dress, first
smell to it, then turn it over and over, and
lastly, fling it away on the wet deck. It was
amusing enough to observe that, all the while
he was committing any piece of mischief, he
appeared not only to be under the fullest con-
sciousness of guilt, but living under the per-
fect certainty that he was earning a good
sound drubbing for his pains. Still, the plea-
sure of doing wrong was so strong and habi-
tual within him, that he seemed utterly in-
capable of resisting the temptation whenever
it fell in his way. When occupied in these
misdeeds, he continued alternately chattering
with terror, and screaming with delight at his
own ingenuity, till the enraged owner of the
property burstin upon him, hardly more angry
with Jacko than with his malicious mess-
mates, who, instead of preventing, rather
encouraged the pillage.

' All this was innocent, however, compared
to the tricks which the blue jackets taught
him to play upon the jolly marines. How
they set about this laudable piece of instruc-
tion I know not : but the antipathy which
they established in Jacko's breast against the
red coats was something far beyond ordinary
prejudice, and in its consequences -"< - 'c

more of the interminable war between U

dog.

" The monkey, who entered with all the
zeal of a hot partisan into the designs of the
blues, showed no mercy to the red faction,
against whom he had not, in fact, the slightest
shadow of a real quarrel. As that trifling
circumstance, however, seemed, as in graver
cases of quarrel, only to aggravate the hos-
tility, every new day brought a new mode of
attack upon the unhappy soldiers, who were
never safe. At first he merely chattered, or
grinned contemptuously at them ; or, at worst
snapped at his heels, soiled their fine pipe-
clayed trousers, or pulled the cartridges out
of their cartouch-boxes, and scattered the
powder over the decks, feats for which his
rump was sure to smart under the ratan of the
indignant sergeant, to whom the ' party' made
their complaint. Upon these occasions the
sailors laughed so heartily at their friend
Jacko, as he placed his hands behind him,
and, in an agony of rage and pain, rubbed the
seat of honour, smarting under the servant's
chastisement, that, if he could only have rea-
soned the matter like a statesman, he would
soon have distrusted his advantage in this of-
fensive, but not defensive, alliance with the
Johnnies against the Jollies. Sometimes,
indeed, he appeared to be quite sensible of
his absurd position, caned by his enemy and
ridiculed by his friends, in whose cause he
was suffering. On these occasions he often
made a run, open-mouthed, at the sailors ; in
return for which mutinous proceeding he was
sure to get a smart rap over the nose from his
o\\n party \vhich more tlr.in counterpoised



the anguish at the other extremity of his per-
son, giving ludicrous occupation to both his
hands, and redoubling the shouts of laughter
at his expense. In short, poor St. Jago lite-
rally got what is currently called monkey's
allowance, viz. * more kicks than halfpence.'

" In process of time, as Mr. Monkey, by
dint of that bitter monitor, experience, gained
higher knowledge in the art of marine war-
fare and ship diplomacy, he became much
more formidable in his attacks on the * corps,'
and generally contrived to keep himself well
beyond the reach of the sergeant's merciless
ratan. One of the favorite pranks of the
sailors was to place him near the break of the
forecastle, with a handspike, taken from the
bow-chaser gun, in his paws. It was quite
as much as he could carry, and far more than
he could use as a missile against the royals ;
but he was soon instructed in a method of
employing it, which always grievously annoyed
the enemy. Theoretically speaking, I presume
poor Jacko knew no more of the laws of gra-
vitation, when applying it to the annoyance
of the marines, than his friends the seamen
did of centrifugal action, when swinging
round the hand-lead to gain soundings by
pitching it far forward into the water ; but
without such scientific knowledge, both the
monkey and his wicked associates knew very
well that if a handspike were held across the
top of the forecastle ladder, and let go when a
person was about half way down it, the heels
of the said individual would be sure to bring
up or stop the bar. The unhappy marine,
therefore, who happened to be descending the
steps when Jacko let his handspike fall, gene-
rally got the skin taken off his heels, or his
instep, according as his rear or his front was
turned towards the foe. The instant Jacko
let go his hold and the law of gravitation be-
gan to act, so that the handspike was heard to
rattle down the ladder, off he jumped to the
bow of the barge, overlooking the spot, and
there sat, with his neck stretched out, his
eyes starting from his head, and his lips
drawn back, till his teeth, displayed from ear
to ear, rapped against one another like a pair
of castanets in a bolero, under the influence of
the most ecstatic alarm, curiously mixed up
with the joy of complete success. The poor
wounded Gulpin, in the meantime, rubbed his
ankles, as he fired off a volley of imprecations,
the only effect of which was to increase the
number of his audience, grinning and laugh-
ing in chorus with the terrified mischief-
monger."



HAPPY JERRY !
Late of the Surrey Zoological Gardens.

The individual with this felicitous soubri-
quet, was a specimen of the great Mandrill
Baboon, in its adult state, the Papio Maimon
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of Desmarest. It is a native of the Gold
Coast and Guinea, in Africa, where whole
droves of them often plunder the orchards
and vineyards. Their colours are grayish-
brown, inclining to olive above ; the cheeks
are blue and furrowed, and the chin has a
sharp pointed orange beard ; the nose grows
red, especially towards the end, where it
becomes of a bright scarlet. Such are, how-
ever, only the colours of the adult animal ;
the young differs materially, on which account
it has been considered by naturalists as a dis-
tinct species.

Jerry is now a member of death's " antic
court" (observes the editor of the Mirror),
but his necrology may be interesting to the
reader. Mr. Cross describes him as " from
on board a slave vessel that had been cap-
tured off the Gold Coast in the year 1815,"
when he was supposed to be three years old.
He was landed at Bristol, and was there pur-
chased by the proprietor of a travelling me-
nagerie, who kept him for some years, and
taught him the various accomplishments he
after excelled in, as sitting in a chair, smok-
ing, drinking grog, &c.; probably he re-
quired but little tuition in the latter ; since
we find a fondness for fermented liquors
numbered among his habits by the biographers
of his species. In 1828 Jerry was purchased
by Mr. Cross, and exhibited at the King's
Mews, when he appeared in full vigour, and
attracted a large number of daily visitors.
He was fed daily from the table of his owner,
and almost made a parlor guest ; taking tea,
toast, bread and butter, soup, boiled and
roast meats, vegetables, pastry, &c., with as
much goAt as any member of a club in his
vicinity. In 1829 his eccentricities reached
the royal ear at Windsor, and George the
Fourth (whose partiality to exotics, animate
or inanimate, was well known) sent an "ex-
press command" that Jerry should attend at
the Castle. The invitations of royalty are
always undeclinable, and Jerry obeyed ac-
cordingly. The King was much amused with
his visiter, and, says our informant, " his
Majesty was delighted at seeing him eat the
state dinner, consisting of venison, &c,, which
had been prepared for him." * Thus, Jerry
was not in the parlous state described by
Touchstone : he was not damned like the poor
shepherd : he had been to court. He had
also learnt good and gallant manners. He
recognised many of his frequent visiters, and
if any female among them was laid hold of,
in his presence, he would bristle with rage,
strike the bars of his cage with tremendous
force, and violently gnash his teeth at the
ungallant offender.



* This reminds us of the attachment of the late
Duke of Norfolk to his dogs. They were admitted to
the apartment in which his Grace dined ; and he often
selected the fine cuts from joints at table, and threw
the pieces to the curs upon the polished oak floors of
4rundel Castle.



In the autumn of 1831 Jerry's health began
to decline, and he was accordingly removed
from Charing Cross to the suburban salubrity
of the Surrey Zoological Gardens. All was
of no avail ; though, as a biographer would
say of a nobler animal, every remedy was
tried to restore him to health. Life's fitful
fever was well nigh over with him, and in the
month of December last he died. His body
was opened and examined, when it appeared
that his death was through old age ; and,
although he had been a free liver, and, as
Mr. Cross facetiously observes, " was not a
member of a Temperance Society," his in-
ternal organization did not seem to have suf-
fered in the way usually consequent upon hard
drinking. Perhaps a few ascetic advocates
of cant and care-wearing abstinence will
think that we ought to conceal this excep-
tionable fact, lest Jerry's example should be
more frequently followed. Justice demands
otherwise ; and as the biogrophers of old tell
us that Alexander the Great died of hard
drinking, so ought we to record that Happy
Jerry's life was not shortened by the imperial
propensity : in this case,the monkeyhasbeat thy
man ; proverbially, the man beats the monkey.
Jerry had, however, his share of ailment he
had been a martyr to that love-pain, the tooth-
ache ; several of his large molar teeth being
entirely decayed. This circumstance ac-
counted for the gloomy appearance he would
sometimes put on, and his covering his head
with his hands and laying it in his chair.
Poor fellow ! we could have sympathized
with him from our very hearts we mean
teeth. Jerry's remains have been carefully
embalmed (we hope in his favourite spirit),
and are now at the Surrey Gardens ; where
the arrival of a living congener is daily ex-
pected. Meanwhile, will nobody write the
hicjacet of the deceased?* or no publisher



The Editor of the " BOOK OF SPORIS" has most
humhly endeavoured to scribble out an EPITAPH ; or,
in other words, " a sort of remembrance" respecting
the character of the late HAPPY J F.KKY for the amuse-
ment of his readers ; how fai he has succeeded in his
attempts to describe the qualities of Jerry, he must
leave to the candid opinion of the public. However,
Mr. Cross may adopt it if he thinks proper, should he
have some little niche left in the Surrey Zoological
Gardens unoccupied, where he can make it public; if
not, it will maintain its situation iu the pages of the
" Book of Sports !"

HERE LIES

The remains of HAPPY JERRY ! ! !

Who never uttered one complaint during his life !

A most BcCBMTltlC CKLATCRF. ;

and one of those

EXTRAORDINARY BEINGS

Rarely to be met with in this most enlightened age

in which the LIBERTY OF THE PHKSS might have

afforded such great facilities
To au observer of human nature ;

but, nevertheless,

He heard, SAW, and said NOTHING!
A good example to all Tatlers !

HAPPY JERRY

Was an object of attraction to thousands of persons,
although he was considered

A VERY FREE LIVERI

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engage for his reminiscences ?f Mr. Cross
would probably supply the skeleton of the
memoir not of his poor dead Jerry. What

And would not listen to the valuable advice of the

TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES:

In truth, their remarks as to the preservation

of health were entirely thrown away upon

liis understanding I
He was no respecter of persons and Jerry looked

upon King George in his palace
With the same sort of indifference as he did on

the lowest of his subjects out of it.
In the establishment to which he belonged

HAPPY JERRY

Was treated with the respect of a parlour boarder,
all the good things of this life he was fond of,

to excess : and he enjoyed his
TEA, and TOAST, with as much godt

as the richest Duke in the land.

JERRY was fond of his grog, although he never toasted

any of his acquaintances over it ; and very much

attached to smoking! but he never gave

his visitors the benefit of

his cogitations.
We have not been able to trace his pedigree on either

side of the question,

respecting his SIKE or his DAM;

therefore, it must suffice, that he was of foreign

extraction. However, Jerry did not boast

of family pride : and would not

have returned thanks for

A PEERAGE !

Such was his state of independence !

He was never known to flatter any person ; and

nothing in the shape of a 3ac>t-biter

attached to his character.

But TIME

proved his overthrow : OLD AGE was too much for
him, and Death gave Happy Jerry

his quietus !

In the month of December, 1831.
f The reminiscences of Happy Jerry, as one of the
on dits of the day, are under consideration at the pre-
sent moment, but the learned Pundits, it should seem
are rather at fault to decipher the marks, or rather
scratches of society, which he has left behind him ;
but the above learned gents, have not the slightest
doubt, if they could be made out in a tangible sort of
taanner, that the rising generation might be greatly
benefited by his ranarks. However, it will not be
denied, that the late HAPPY JERRY, was a "Monkey
who had seen the world !" and its fashionable movements,
airs, and grimaces ; but the thing most to be deplored
is at the present period -that the great march of in-
tellect will be impeded by it as he kept all his observa-
tions to himself. It i s thus Gay, in his delightful
fables, descnbes the " Monkey who had seen the
world :"



A monkey to reform the times,
Resolv'd to visit foreign climes :
For men in distant regions roam
To bring politer manners home.
So forth he sets, al! toil defies ;
Misfortune serves to make us wise.

At length the treach'rous snare was laid ;
Poor Pug was caught, to town convey'd,
There sold. How envy'd was his doom,
Made captive in a lady's room '
Proud as a lover of his chains,
He day by day her favour gains.
"Whene'er the duty of the day
The toilet calls with mimic play,
He twirls her knots, he cracks her fan,
Like any other gentleman.
In visits too his parts and wit,
When jests grew dull were sure to hit.
Proud with applause, he thought his mind
In ev'ry courtly art refin'd :
Like Orpheus burnt with public zeal,
To civilize the MO.NKKY weal ;
bo watch'd occasion, broke his chain,
And sought his native woods again ?



tales could he have told of the slave-stricken
people of the Gold Coast, what horrors of the
slave-ship whence he was taken, what a fine
graphic picture of his voyage, and his travels
in England, a la Prince Puckler Muskau, not
forgetting his visit to Windsor Castle

Baboons may be rendered docile in confine-
ment, though they almost always retain the
disposition to revenge an injury. At the Cape
they are often caught when young, and brought
up with milk ; perhaps Jerry was so nur-
tured ; and Kolben tells us that they will
become as watchful over their master's pro-
perty as the most valuable house-dog is in
Europe. Many of the Hottentots believe
they can speak, but that they avoid doing so
lest they should be enslaved, and com-
pelled to work ! What a libel upon human
nature is conveyed in this trait of savage
credulity. The bitterest reproofs of man's
wickedness are not only to be found in the
varnished lessons of civilization. Here is a
touching piece of simplicity upon which