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HORSE ARTISTS QUEER WAY TO FAME Uecenlly at Christies the famous I ondon book and picture marl a painting of the famous lace horse Hues wing was told for 700 It was done in 1843 by J F Herring who was an odd genius of his linns Herring jumped into artistry in a queer way He was a furniture fabric maker in London and when work was scarce resolved with his wife to change his quarters The pair took a gazetteer and Herring stuck a knife at random among its pages saying sayingWherever Wherever the knife points my girl there we go Doncaster was pointed to and thither the pli went lalrr roiiKivInj to Newmarket Pic ¬ tures of nearly nil the famous race burses were painted by him JIu hud a gift that way Her ¬ rings work brought him comfor t aul f nte
