[158]. This may serve to settle a disputed point as to the colour of “the Belcher,” which has been wrongly said, in a reply to a correspondent in a leading sporting journal, to have been “a blue bird’s-eye.” Principal and seconds were here Bristol men.
[159]. Death’s Doings.
[160]. Another of the too-late battles. Martin closed his real ring career, in 1824, by a drawn battle with Jem Burn.
[161]. Mr. John Jackson.
[162]. Now the Victoria, in the Waterloo Road.
[163]. Poet Laureate to the Fancy.—Ed.
[164]. See Note A, p. 258.
[165]. Egan says, “Pentikin, a Scotch baker.” Certainly Scotchmen have almost a monopoly of London baking, but the reporter of the day makes Pentikin a Cornish man.
“By Pol, Tre, and Pen,
Ye shall know the Cornish men.”