My Racing Adventures 



getting the desired weight off! " The only thing 

 I possess," he moaned, "is my flesh, my own 

 flesh, and they are stripping that off me at the 

 rate of several nuggets per diem." The effect 

 was not unmelodramatic, though, when the 

 denouement was reached, most of his friends 

 were, as usual, gone. Few friends stay to see 

 us cut up with gusto. 



In my young days, when I was fifteen or six- 

 teen years old, I was obliged to waste hard to 

 ride 7 st. 7 lb. The process of attenuation is 

 not exhilarating. I used to go for long walks 

 in heavy " sweaters " — 6 miles out and 6 miles 

 back at a brisk pace, so as to induce a state 

 of copious perspiration. I was able to get off 

 about 4 lbs. in the first walk ; and, of course, to 

 keep it off more pedestrianism was necessary. 

 " The suet," as an old jockey used to say, " is 

 not easily evaporated." When it happens to be 

 one's own suet one realises the terrors of the 

 situation. 



Food is, under these distressing circumstances, 

 regarded as a sort of anachronism. We hope to 

 have some more in due season, but we do not 

 know when : the sooner the better, we think, but 

 that is not good enough to bet on till the cows 

 come home with overflowing udders. Whilst 



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