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betting ; the winner, having got his money so easily, 

 is careless what he pays, and is ready to pay through 

 the nose, and to the loser the exorbitant charges are 

 but as another drop in the ocean.' No doubt over- 

 charge is the rule everywhere where any kind of 

 sport is a-foot, or any holiday-making is toward, so 

 that the very tram-cars are said to charge double 

 fares on Sundays and * holy ' days or holidays, and 

 the tolls at Putney Bridge and Hampton Court used 

 to be doubled in old times for whoever took an outing 

 on Sunday ; but for him who goes a-horse-racing or 

 a-horse-race-seeing, prices are multiplied from tenfold 

 to an hundredfold. 



On the other hand, unfortunately, there is no- 

 gainsaying the fact that betting is the manure to- 

 which the present enormous crop of horse-racing and 

 race-horse-breeding in this and other countries is to 

 a very considerable extent due ; and that, without 

 betting, we should never have seen the establishment 

 of those prodigious prizes (though, of course, they are 

 obtained by clever alchemy from subscriptions and 

 profits), and those high prices which make it possible 

 for a few (and still comparatively only a few) owners, 

 runners, and breeders of the thoroughbred, such as 

 the late Lord Falmouth and the present Duke of 

 Portland (with whom Mr. H. Chaplin may be joined, 

 although he belongs conspicuously to the betting 

 persuasion), to make racing and breeding pay hand- 

 somely without any sort of gambling. The late Lord 



