CHAPTER XI 



I HAVE now arrived at a point in these 

 " rambling reminiscences " where I must take 

 pause to survey the situation and cogitate 

 carefully. Many of the happenings with 

 which I would deal have been previously chronicled 

 by my pen in various contemporary publications. 

 I put it to myself that the most convenient method 

 for me to adopt would be to quote liberally and 

 almost verbatim from some of these scripts. As one 

 alternative, I could rewrite the items with which I am 

 disposed to deal. This would resolve itself into a 

 question of word-juggling and paraphrasing such as 

 would result in a labour of supererogation, which 

 could have no value from either a literary or an in- 

 formative point of view. A second alternative would 

 be to cut out altogether the incidents with which I have 

 dealt in other pages. This would, of course, create a 

 hiatus and a vacuum which would have to be filled up 

 with " padding " and extraneous matter of doubtful 

 concern to readers who haply might have been mildly 

 interested in this unconsidered trifle in the way of 

 Turf history in general, and my own experiences in 



particular. 



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