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name. The first time I saw him was in the late Sixties at 

 Umballa, when he was a handsome young officer in the army. 

 He kept racehorses, was a first-rate gentleman rider and 

 amateur trainer, and could hold his own with Sir Seymour 

 Blaine, who was called on account of his good looks ' The 

 Destroying Angel,' poor George Joy, Walter Harbord, ' Bobby' 

 Soames, ' Ben ' Roberts, and others who used to play ' the 

 great game ' in India long ago. He is a capital actor, and 

 it is ' kind ' for him, as we say in Ireland ; for he is a descend- 

 ant of Garrick ; the last, I believe. He is a fine fellow in 

 every way, and the best of good company. I also frequently 

 saw 'The Shifter,' who is clever, intensely amusing, kind- 

 hearted to a fault, and hasn't an enemy bar himself. A funny 

 thing about Mr Corlett is that not content with the immense 

 success which the Sporting Times has obtained, he loves to 

 ' run ' a second weekly paper which changes its name as well 

 as its colour from time to time. The last alteration was that 

 of The Bird of Freedom to The Man of the World. 



While staying at Newmarket, one cannot help being 

 struck by the immense amount of money earned by some of 

 the trainers and jockeys. At first glance, the author, artist, 

 or man of abstract science might be tempted to disclaim 

 against the partiality of Dame Fortune, who rains gold on 

 comparatively uneducated men, but leaves him parched and 

 thirsty, with often not enough for a ' drink.' In this plaint 

 there is no more justice than in one against the giving of a 

 few large prizes in a lottery, in which there was an enormous 

 number of low-priced tickets taken. Although men are not 

 born equal ; they are certainly born with equal rights, which 

 they may or may not get. The few jockeys and trainers 

 who can drink champagne, dress their wives in fashionable 

 clothes and pay their way, form an extremely small percent- 

 age of men who have spent their lives, which was all they 

 had to give, in the vain endeavour to obtain a sufficiency of 

 bread, cheese, New Zealand mutton, ' four ale,' shag tobacco, 

 five shillings a week for rent, and the price of a few second- 



