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fourth in the Derby one year. Why, every horse one met 

 seemed to know all about it. If you are a stranger, any 

 gentleman will tell one where to go for each race, and half 

 the pleasure is walking about on the beautiful turf on a fine 

 day. Oh, but what a terrible place it must be in rain or 

 snow ! Barring two or three scrubby bushes, there is not 

 shelter for your corns even in the open. 



Shouldn't I like to enclose a circle of 450 yards in 

 diameter with a 10-feet bank, well turfed round, with a 

 terrace on the top for spectators, and lay out a cricket 

 ground on that heath, and not let a living soul be on the 

 ground except the eleven, the two batsmen, and the umpires, 

 as is the case at the dripping-pan at Lewes. What a 

 splendid ground it would make. 



1 have a nasty knack of talking to myself when alone, 

 and sometimes of quarrelling with myself out loud ; so, after 

 two hours of my own company, I was not sorry to meet my 

 Sussex cricketer, who knew everything and everybody. I 

 may allude to an admirable arrangement, which is having 

 the birdcage, which answers to the paddock at Epsom, ad- 

 joining the Grand Stand, and open to the public as regards 

 seeing everything, as it was a great pleasure to see the 

 horses saddled and walked about, and the owners, jockeys, 

 and trainers, and to see the people in the Jockey Club, and 

 all the real English sportsmen. Lst me not omit also to 

 draw attention to another admirable arrangement, which is, 

 having a clock-tower on the Stand, which is a great con- 

 venience. I do delight to see a sport carried out by noble- 

 men and gentlemen who really understand it, although I 

 may know little of it myself, as much as I hate shams of all 

 kinds ; and although I was at Newmarket on a quiet day, 

 I never was more pleased in my life. The enthusiasm of 

 the female equestrians, some of whom wore Napoleon boots, 

 and knickerbockers, I suppose — we cannot suppose that they 



