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of the boys in my employment will tell their own 

 incriminating story : — 



Sj r> — i n ow venture to ask you if you are agreable to 



correspond with me the coming flat race season. You 



may rest assured it will be quite safe, and it will be kept 



quite a secret between us. If you should favour me by 



answering you could name a place where you could get 



your letters safe. 



I am, yours truly, 



P.S. — An answer would oblige. 



Dear , — Your kind letter to hand. Was pleased 



to hear your enjoying good health. I wish to thank you 

 for your kindness on my behalf in consenting to correspond 

 with me. I can assure you that you will find me quite 

 straight in my dealings with you, and also everything will 

 be quite safe on my part. I can assure you I may have the 

 pleasure of seeing you here Whit week do you come to 

 this meeting. If so will not forget to give you a show all 

 round. How I wrote to you was I noticed your name in 

 the sporting paper in a trial where Omladina won. So I 

 thought I may ask you which has proved successful. So 

 I beg to tender my thanks to ycu for your kind letter. 



I am yours truly, 



P.S. — Kindly excuse the writing in haste. 



■ I now leave him to treat of another subject, one 

 already touched upon in a former chapter under a 

 different head, namely the subject of the jockey. 



4 I contend that he is the embodiment of one of 

 the most important of all the problems that demand 

 solution in connection with the national sport. 

 Where are the jockeys ? Where will they be in 



