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Pavis generally appear to advantage; they 

 are in great request, and consequently are 

 put on the best horses in the race, and 

 have the best chance to distinguish them- 

 selves. William Scott is possessed of con- 

 siderable property (part in right of his 

 wife), and is brother to the well-known 

 Yorkshire trainer of his name. 



Every trade, profession, or pursuit, opens, 

 in its own peculiar circle of habits, a dis- 

 tinct subject of study ; and perhaps the 

 existence of the Newmarket stable-boy, a 

 thing on which the majority of our readers 

 have never spent a thought, might, as 

 painted by Holcroft, interest them more 

 than the most accurate delineation of many 

 higher modes and aspects of life. In that 

 able writer's Memoirs the genuine and 

 really valuable part of them all this is 

 capitally described, from his first arrival 

 at Newmarket to his final departure, at the 

 age of sixteen ; from his fall off Mr. Wood- 

 cock's iron-grey filly, in his novitiate, to his 

 being one of the best exercise-riding boys 

 in the town ; until all his equestrian hopes 

 were ruined by 'idling away his time in 

 reading/ as he was emphatically told by 



