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badge of servitude, and some badge of that sort ser- 

 vants should wear. But then what would become of 

 gentlemen's gentlemen? why, they would be in the 

 same place where gentlemen-jocks, in racing phrase, 

 should be nowhere ; and a very good place too for 

 them, though a very bad one for a promising Derby 

 colt. But gentlemen's gentlemen are generally cattle 

 of no promise : I wish I had the handicapping them. 

 Though I might seriously diminish the weight of their 

 self-estimation, I promise them they should not carry 

 a feather over the course they have hitherto run, 

 I would bring them out Jit to go, but without quite 

 as much " waste and spare " on them. I would attend 

 to their health, I warrant me. I would also attend 

 to all their proper comforts and happiness ; but they 

 should not become caljish and tricky. 



Let us have gentlemen: let us have yeomen, ple- 

 beians, or the middle classes (by whichever or what- 

 ever name you choose to describe them) : let us Lave 

 jockeys, and servants; but let the line of demarcation 

 between the grades not be done (in stationer's phrase) 

 in faint lines, but in a good honest, broad, black one. 

 The higher grades would not then (as they now are 

 to a certain extent) be compelled to treat the lower 

 with unbecoming hauteur from a fear of a too near 

 approximation ; nor the lower grades be perpetually 

 struggling to attain that unattainable (and to them 

 unnecessary) title, "gentleman" By each adhering 

 to his proper station, each would receive the proper 

 respect due to that station. 



Let us therefore still have races to be ridden 

 by gentlemen, races to be ridden by farmers, yeo- 

 manry, and of course, as usual, races to be ridden 

 by jockeys ; but in lieu of races for gentlemen-jock*, 



