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CHAPTEH XIL 



A SUMMARY. 



Let us now imagine a boy at a Board School being 

 examined by his teacher (after a long course of the 

 ' Eacing Calendar,' duly expounded and commented 

 upon by a competent lecturer) in the orthodox manner. 

 The examination would run as follows, with question 

 (Q.) and answer {A.) : — 



Q. How long have Frenchmen been jiurchasing 

 Eno;lish thorouofhbred horses ? 



A. For more than a hundred years, off and on. 



Q. What do you mean by ' off and on ' ? 



A. With interruptions caused by the many Ee volu- 

 tions to which that favoured land is liable by nature. 



Q. Very well. When would you date the first 

 purchase ? 



A. About 1765, in Louis XV.'s reign, when Count 

 de Lauraguais purchased the celebrated Gim crack, took 

 him over to France, and ran him twenty-two and a half 

 miles within the hour, for a big bet. 



Q. Very well indeed. And the next purcliases ? 



A. A little later, in the reign of Louis XVI., when 

 the Count d'Artois (afterwards Charles X.) and Philippe 

 Egalite (Duke dc Chartres and Duke d'Orleans, who 

 was beheaded at the Eevolution) imported, by means of 

 the Marquis de Conflans and others, the celebrated 



