On another occasion Old Q. made a bet of a thousand guineas that he would produce a man who would eat more at a meal than any one Sir John Lade could find. The bet being accepted, the time was appointed, but his Grace, not being able to attend the exhibition, wrote to his agent to know what success, and accordingly received the following note:-- MY LORD,--I have not time to state particulars, but merely to acquaint your Grace that your man beat his antagonist by a _pig and apple-pye_. (Signed) J.P. A curious wager which led to litigation was one between Old Q., when Lord March, and Mr. William Pigot. The latter and Mr. Codrington being together at Newmarket, it was proposed to run their fathers against each other. Mr. Pigot's father was upwards of seventy, and Mr. Codrington's father little more than fifty. The chances were calculated, and Mr. Codrington, thinking them disadvantageous to him, declined the bet, whereupon Lord March agreed to stand in his place, and mutual notes were interchanged. Mr. Pigot's note was:-- I promise to pay to the Earl of March 500 guineas if my father dies before Sir William Codrington. WILLIAM PIGOT. The Earl's was:-- I promise to pay to Mr. Pigot 1600 guineas in case Sir William Codrington does not survive Mr. Pigot's father. MARCH. The fact was that Mr. Pigot's father was then actually dead, but that was wholly unknown to the parties. It was contended on the part of Mr. Pigot, that, as he could not possibly win, he ought not to lose, and it was compared to a ship insurance. If the policy upon a ship had not the words "lost or not lost" inserted, and the ship should be actually lost at the time of making that policy, it would be void. For the plaintiff it was argued that the contract was good, because the fact being wholly unknown to the parties, it could not influence either. The wager was held to be good, and the plaintiff obtained a verdict of £500, the amount of his wager. The most important match made by the "evergreen votary of Venus," as Old Q. was called, was in 1750, when, as Lord March, he bet Count O'Taafe, an Irish gentleman notorious for eccentricity, one thousand guineas that a carriage with four wheels could be devised capable of being drawn at not less than nineteen miles within an hour.