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A FEW REMARKS ON TRAINING 

 RACE-HORSES. 



I BELIEVE it will be allowed by most persons (except- 

 ing those immediately interested in denying it) that 

 there is a very considerable portion of mystification, 

 not to say deception, practised in all trades and pro- 

 fessions. " There are tricks in all trades " is an adage 

 nearly as old as the tricks themselves. I pay the 

 tricks the compliment of giving them precedence in 

 point of seniority, as I conclude their practice gave 

 origin to the adage. 



To enumerate the different sort of tricks practised 

 in the different pursuits of making money would, 

 when relating to each particular trade or profession, 

 first require the space of a very respectable folio 

 volume, and secondly, require the enumerator and 

 describer of them to have served a close apprentice- 

 ship to that particular pursuit ; and then unless he had 

 kept both his eyes and ears open, he would not be au 

 fait de son metier. 



We will, to make as short work as possible of the 

 subject now in hand, classify these tricks under the 

 following heads : 



Tricks to make a great appearance of business when, 

 in truth, there is but little doing : these tricks are 

 pretty much in vogue now every where, but more par- 

 ticularly so in London; this leads to a very considerable 

 consumption of large panes of plate-glass for windows, 

 marble fronts and gilt letters on the outside, Turkey 

 carpets, splendid mirrors, and a host of white era- 



