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ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 



far to redeem the trotting track from those degrading 

 associations with which, one must admit, it is almost 

 always connected. Man may take a lesson from the 

 horse, as well as from the dog, in courage, in resolu- 

 tion, and in discipline. It is a noble spirit that ani- 

 mates the exhausted trotter, who, obedient to the rein 

 and voice of the jockey, expends his last reserve of 

 force on the home stretch, and staggers under the 

 wire a winner by a head. 



