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besides the reduction of his weight, the 

 effect is visible on his skin, which has a 

 remarkably transparent hue. In fact, he 

 may be said to show condition after every 

 sweat, till he looks as sleek as the horse he 

 is going to ride. But the most mortifying 

 attendant upon wasting is the rapid accumu- 

 lation of flesh immediately on a relaxation 

 of the system, it having often happened 

 that jockeys, weighing not more than seven 

 stone, have gained as many pounds in one 

 day, from merely obeying the common 

 dictates of nature, committing no excess. 

 Non misere vivit qui pard vtvit 1 is an 

 acknowledged truism; but during the racing 

 season, a jockey in high practice, who as 

 is the case with Chifney, Robinson, Dockery, 

 and Scott is naturally above our light 

 racing weights, is subject to no trifling 

 mortification. Like the good Catholic, 

 however, when Lent expires, he feels him- 

 self at liberty when the racing season is at 

 an end ; and on the last day of the Hough- 

 ton Meeting, Frank Buckle had always a 

 goose for supper \ his labours for the season 

 being then concluded. But it will naturally 

 1 He does not live unhappily who lives sparingly. 



