Trainers, Touts, and Tipsters 



throw oil on the troubled waters of his mind. 

 Moisture on the brain is not easily accessible, if 

 we may believe the scientists, whose tips do not 

 always come off. Neither touts nor tipsters have 

 interfered with me in the performance of my 

 work, and I do not wish to say a word in their 

 disparagement. But, as alleged, their occupation 

 is not so lucrative, generally speaking, as it was 

 some years ago. Clients are, perhaps, suffering 

 from a too-common malady — not want of faith 

 so much as want of funds. It seems that we 

 cannot have both in abundance at the same time. 

 Wages and wagers do not always blend with 

 a perfect harmony. 



" No debt is really good," affirms an oracle at 

 command, "until it is collected and the money 

 paid into the bank with a sigh or two of relief; 

 also, no race is a certainty till the winner has 

 passed the post with his head in his chest, has 

 weighed in all right, and has survived three 

 objections." Those ancient oracles were caustic 

 in utterance, and the marvel is that they were 

 not suppressed by Act of Parliament before they 

 began to air their views as freely as though they 

 were on a desert or cannibal island. 



Nor had I ever much trouble in connection 

 with the lads employed in my stable. They 



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