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loses a race even in the hands of some of our 

 tip-top sawyers from being made too much use 

 of at first, or not coming at the proper moment. 

 Neither should a man make too much of a wait- 

 ing race of it ; scores have lost in that way. A 

 jockey generally must be governed by circum- 

 stances. But to return to the subject. Our 

 unfortunate French friend was carried away, 

 and at the ball, in the evening, we were glad 

 to hear he was going on well, and that there 

 was no danger. 



From the ball room we wandered into that 

 set apart for play. Ecarte and lansquenet were 

 going on in full force, and from the eager faces 

 around us I concluded the play was heav} 7 , 

 which it was. We got up as well as we could 

 to the lansquenet table, which was crowded, 

 and there sat facing us, with a pile of gold 

 pieces before him, no less a person than our 

 American cousin, Captain Willum, of Havre, 

 got up in the pink of fashion. He saw us on 

 the instant. 



" Hello w, Britishers, here we air agin. By 

 stars and stripes, I'm not a squirting now. I 

 guess this old 'oss has rather raised the dander 



