MR. PARKER. 



Grand Stand), his quarry howling pitifully all the 

 way. The weighing-room gained, the man was 

 allowed to regain an erect position. 



' Now,' said Parker, ' pay, or I will throw you 

 down again and take it from you.' 



But, untaught by experience, the fellow, instead of 

 complying with the request, began to argue the point, 

 and, before he knew where he was, found himself 

 again on his back, and a large roll of notes taken from 

 his pocket. Mr. Parker counted out £15 from these, 

 and, after handing the sum to Mr. Upton, returned 

 the roll to the welsher, with a solemn warning that 

 if he ever dared to do anything of the like again, he, 

 Mr. Parker, would kick him all round the ring, and 

 then out of it; adding that he felt very much inclined 

 to do it there and then. 



Of such fellows as these, Mr. Parker could beat ' a 

 lane full :' and they knew it, without troubling him 

 to put them through the fiery ordeal. In fact, his 

 extensive knowledge of pedestrianism, and of the feats 

 of endurance which pugilists have to submit to, gave 

 him an insight of training, and what horses should 

 do, and what they should be like when lit to run, 

 that very few other men possessed. Therefore, how- 

 ever specious the reasoning, nothing would make him 

 believe in a half-trained horse, or cause him to think 

 that a trained one was overdone. In this opinion he 

 was confirmed by his own experience in the training 

 of doo-s. Of the many amusing and instructive 



