250 EACECOURSE AND COVERT SIDE. 



conjuror, who is always going to perform some 

 marvellous and unprecedented feat when his 

 kind friends have made up an amount which 

 somehow is never quite reached, is eloquent 

 on the subject of his prowess ; and those energetic 

 tipsters who grow red and frantic in their 

 exertions to persuade the world in general to 

 buy a guide to certain fortune for the ridiculously 

 small sum of sixpence, are bawling themselves 

 hoarse. They have all enjoyed the confidence 

 of the noblest patrons of the turf, but have been 

 a little unsteady, and come to consequent grief; 

 but they are still behind the scenes — they know all 

 that can be known, and if they do not sell you a 

 card containing the name of the winner for the 

 absurdly inadequate price mentioned they will 

 forfeit ten pounds. The reasons why they abstain 

 from putting their capital on the winner, and so 

 freeing themselves from the pressing need for 

 sixpences, they omit to mention. 



Meantime the royal party has driven up. 

 On the balcony above the lawn the Princess is 

 smiHngly talking to her friends ; the Prince is 

 probably strolling about under the beeches, where 

 servants are busy laying the tables for the 

 luncheon, which is one of the features of the 

 day. A line of drags three deep is forming at 

 the further end of the lawn, and on the course 



