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must be ridden a good few times by the owner and do not 

 permit him to be qualified by any G. R. This we think 

 is a sensible provision and blocks the way of the '' pot 

 hunter," — always a desirable thing. Many people held 

 when the Average Cup was first introduced that it was a 

 mistake, because it induced men — and fair women also — to 

 ride harder than ever ; but as the thrusting brigade will go 

 whether there is a cup or whether there is not, it was 

 thought just as well to allow an institution that added a 

 considerable amount of interest to the season, to continue. 



If we set down all the many stories of deeds of derring- 

 do performed at various times by various people who 

 have made a big effort to get this Cup, we should cause 

 this already far too corpulent volume to swell to positively 

 indecent dimensions, and we might also, we fear, justly 

 incur our publisher's ire and business-like displeasure by 

 adversely influencing the sales ! 



Some things are too deeply tragic for tears and it is 

 often the best stories that must remain untold ! 



If this chapter were written by the Paperchase viali^ it 

 would be vastly entertaining, for he is a person whose 

 candour often verges upon brutality. He and his mother 

 — who we believe dies, on an average, once a year when 

 the malt's banking account is rather low and requires 

 replenishing by a solatium for his grief out of the Paper- 

 chase Fund — could give us more of the real " meat " of 

 the history of Paperchasing than the present scribe, or 

 anyone else, could, or would, be so venturesome as to do ! 

 He could tell us how '* Brasspot Saheb ka Juggah " came 

 by it's name ; how once he saw " Epistol Sahib ^zW«, girta, 

 girta — Wall Wahgirgia! " he could tell us exactly what 

 are the bad words that Lat Sahibs^ who swarm out on 

 coaches to the Xmas meets, use when they "fallarf" ; he 

 could tell us how '' Variskile Sahib" looked when he 

 came out of th^jheel hanging round Collard and CoHard's 



