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ones. Men one knew years ago when 

 we first started the game, some stouter 

 and more prosperous-looking, others 

 diseased and ragged. The man you re- 

 member as having seen take looo to 

 80 four times Buchanan for the Lincoln 

 Handicap making a very silver book, 

 perhaps, on the outskirts of the silver 

 ring. The man you saw welshing and 

 half bashed to death, as you thought, 

 fifteen years ago at Stockbridge is now 

 betting in Tattersall's ring in thousands 

 over the rails of the members' enclosure, 

 with seven diamond rings on his fingers, 

 and young Koh-i-noors for his shirt- 

 studs. You see a man card-selling 

 whom you knew some years ago as 

 having four horses in training at Lam- 

 bourne, and you see another who started 

 life turning '* cart-wheels " or standing 

 on his head in the street for coppers, 



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