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RACING. 



popular ; besides, even when losing, it is well to shout for the 

 winner. The air is thick with hats. 



(Par parenthese.} How do these hat-throwers ever recover 

 their hurled-up headgear ? If you or I, reader, were to drop 

 a fourpenny-bit on the Heath during the most thrilling 

 moments of a race, we should never behold that groat again ; 

 yet we cannot remember ever seeing a man, not utterly drunk, 

 returning home hatless to Newmarket town. 



An escort of jubilant stable boys. 



The two friends exchange glances, then with not undignified 

 haste they betake themselves to the weighing-room. On the 

 way thither they encounter Mr. Commissioner Perkins, in a 

 state of considerable elation, which is somewhat damped by 

 his average of seven to four to all the money not being 

 received with the gratitude or enthusiasm he had antici- 

 pated. 



Archer is there almost as soon as they are. Slowly descends 



