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Whilst here his lordship had requested me to put his horses 

 in the Grand Prix of Paris. He had said he saw no harm in 

 running them on Sunday. But this was not my view, as his 

 lordship knew, and consequently he countermanded the 

 entries in a letter in which he said that he concluded on 

 mature consideration, " What might be right for the French 

 people to do in their own country^ was not quite the thing 

 for Englishmen to do out of or in theirs." 



Personally, I do not work my horses either on Christmas- 

 day or Good Friday ; a matter of prejudice some will say. 

 Still I do not like to do so ; and although, of course, I do 

 not mean to assert that such a thing as the fearful accident I 

 have described as happening at Newmarket on the latter 

 day might not have happened on any other day, it would 

 not at all events have happened when it did, had the horses 

 been in the stable, and probably would not have occurred on 

 a subsequent day. As a matter of fact I have never heard of 

 any other accident so appalling during a trial. I hope I have 

 said sufficient to influence those who practise Sunday labour 

 to abandon it. Cardinal Wolsey is made to say, " And 

 nature does require her times of preservation, which perforce 

 I, her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my 

 tendence to." The lesson should not be thrown away. 



One other usage in stables, a modern innovation, fortu- 

 nately shortlived, and now completely abandoned, I will just 

 glance at in conclusion. We are not altogether free from the 

 weaknesses of our Transatlantic brethren, who, great in ideas, 

 indulge in theories that momently allure only to make the 

 culminating disappointment the greater. Rather than be 

 content with the numerous practical facts at hand for our 

 guidance, to avoid one extreme we rush headlong into 

 another. Sweating being condemned as too severe, we must 



