A SPORTING 1RIP TO FRANCE. 17$ 



is so much, and that they have no objection to 

 go abroad, which is very kind and considerate of 

 them, seeing that they can git nothing to do at 

 home. Some of these Frenchers hears of this,, 

 and gits 'em over. They'll only do down in the 

 country here, for they are too wide awake to 

 hev such characters up round Paris, where, I 

 calculate, the racing is pretty considerably diffe- 

 rent, and it takes a good hoss to whip 'em 

 there. Nothing, stranger, makes a Frencher 

 I mean these country fellows more proud 

 than to hev a jockey Anglais. I guess that's 

 the ticket for them, and they work their mas- 

 ters pretty well. The long and short of it is 

 this, there are a lot of these blackguards here, 

 and when you whipped 'em all yesterday, I 

 heard some two or three say that if they could 

 get at the saddles, that they should jist give 

 your stirrup leathers a perpendickeler cut with 

 a razor, and rub in a little strong oxalic acid. 

 That's all I know ; look to it, and now let's hev 

 a liquor up." 



We thanked our Yankee friend, who was- 

 really a good fellow, and got away back to St. 

 Servan as quick as we could. We found the 



