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which it will no doubt encounter ; surely, however, it 

 is the most windy speculation of the two, to contend 

 velis et remisy omnibus nervis for the sireship of Marsk, 

 when every particle of private interest has been so 

 long defunct, and no public concern exists, or ever 

 did exist ; the thing then cannot be better illustrated 

 and matched, than by tipping a stave from the old 

 elegant and tuneful melody of Yanky Doodle, a 

 temerarious quotation indeed, I allow, in these days 

 of chivalrous purity ; but I trust, the example of 

 Matthews will be my apology, if not my defence; 

 and I am sure my old and good friend Adolphus 

 will laugh, and also Nimrod and Co. 



Dolly Bushel let a , 



Jenny Wathen found it, 



And she carried it to mill 



Where Doctor Warren ground it. 



I sing Doodle Dandy. 



SECTION XLII. 



There can be no doubt, that Eclipse derived much 

 of his vast powers from the advantage of having to 

 undergo no debilitating; labour until he had attained 

 his full strength, his bones had become consolidated, 

 and his sinews endowed with their utmost tenseness 

 and vigour. Would not then, an occasional recourse 

 to the old maxim of not starting till five years old, a 

 colt or filly of the purest blood, and of high promise, 

 be a rational speculation ? It is to purchase a ticket 

 in the lottery of the Turf, for the chance of drawing 

 a Childers or an Eclipse. Such must yet be drawn, 



