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Now, ye see, 1 want ye to make running all the 

 way.' 



"'Very well,' said Arthur; 'hut suppose 

 I can't go fast enough ; what's to be done then ?' 



" ' Oh, by Jasus ! then I suppose you must stop 

 behind!' 



" These were no delicately- whicpered orders, 

 but given coram populo, with the good will of a 

 speaking-trumpet. 



" ' Away they went,' as Pavis told me the de- 

 nouement some time after, ' at a pace that I knew 

 that they could not live to come home with ; so T 

 laid last till within a quarter of a mile from the 

 finish, and then cantered in first, fifty yards or so. 

 But all this availed nothing with Mr. F., who, as 

 soon as I had dismounted, swore by the god of 

 war I should never cross another horse of his ; and 

 he has kept his word.' " 



We will now proceed to notice the most essen- 

 tial points necessary to form an accomplished 

 jockey, and will afterwards describe the " science 

 of race-riding," or jockeyship, and the system of 

 training in use among jockies, to reduce their 

 weight. 



In person, the jockey should be rather under the 

 middle size^ say about five feet, five inches,* and 



* This was the height of old Chifney, the father of the present 

 jockey ; he was also noted for his beautiful symmetry and muscular 

 power, being, in fact, a perfect model of what a jockey should be. 



