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him, and sent him off quicker than he came. I felt sad 

 to think that two men in good position, as these scamps 

 were, should have " tried on " such a shady trick ; but felt 

 far sadder to find, when the pari niutuel boxes were 

 opened, that the first man had put in ten times more 

 than he had told me, and that, had I been but firm in 

 maintaining right, I should have been the richer by four 

 hundred rupees. 



Luriine was the most fidgetty and impetuous animal 

 I have ever known. She looked like a flashy two-year- 

 old, all fiddle-strings and whipcord, and was in striking 

 contrast with the ordinary coachy Waler we were accus- 

 tomed to dignify with the name of " racehorse " in India. 

 She was the most unpleasant hack I have ever sat on 

 She would neither walk, trot, nor canter. She would 

 passage, shoulder-in, progress tail first, waltz, or go in 

 any mad style of her own, but travel as a rational hack 

 ought to do, she would not. On the racecourse she 

 would run away for five furiongs, and then speedy-cut 

 herself and be laid up for a couple ot weeks. I cured 

 her, for the time being, of this failing, by lowering the 

 outside quarters of her hoofs more than the inner ones, 

 and then sent her to Mr. Hartwell at Lucknow. He 

 took great pains with her, and by patience and good 



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