BY H. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL. H ILLUSTRATED BY LEECH, TENNIEL, DOYLE, MILLAIS, SIR NOEL To the most Worshipful, the Three Estates of the Realm (and the Fourth especially). The humble Memorial of the Undersigned, PEGASUS, Sheweth (1) That your Memorialist, on making his fifth appearance in public (this time as a four-year-old), desires to avail himself of his prescriptive privilege as one of the talking animals" to say a few words on his own account. (2) Memorialist would humbly represent that he is much afraid lest the fine ladies and gentlemen in the Grand Stand, or, still worse, those busy, earnest men down there, who are always making and unmaking books, should leave him out of the betting as an "old stager," or perhaps refuse to put any more money upon him, because they think they have seen his best performances already. (3) Against such unkind treatment Memorialist would respectfully protest. His (Memorialist's) master thinks (and Memorialist humbly thinks so too) that it's better to stick to one horse, and do all you know to make a winner of him, than to be constantly starting a lot of fresh animals, which may perhaps turn out to be mere weeds after all, or likely enough break down in their first race. Memorialist also alleges (what, poor beast, is true enough, goodness knows!) that when he entered for the Trial Stakes he was but a foal-a mere schoolboy of a horse, as it were,—and that, although he hopes he has not altogether discredited the kind judgment of those |