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HORSE REWARDS WOMANS PATIENCE. Biruiipghaui, -which won the St. Leger for Mr. Beardsworth iu 1S30, had a curious career. Bought as a foal, he was, soon after Mr. Beardsworth. purchased him, taken ill, aud became so weak that he could not stand to feed. Having a great dislike to seeing an aulmal suffer, Mr. Beardsworth proposed to destroy him, but was dissuaded by his "wife, at whose urgent request the horse was carried by four men to a private box stall near the house, where the lady made him her special care." He rcmaiucd for a month without showing any Improvement, and Mr. Beardsworth several times, urged that humanity required his destruction; but Mrs. Beardsworth resolutely opposed it, having, she declared, a presentiment that Birmingham would recover aud wiu the St. Leger. This he did in a liold of twenty-eight ruuuers. Iriam Uuishlug second and Emancipator third.
