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youth claimed knowledge of two poetical lines, wliich 

 conveyed the same meaning, if not in such elegant 

 diction, at least in quite as comprehensive language 

 for the minds of us ordinary pupils ; and it is 

 evidently much needed that they should he uppermost 

 in all our thoughts now a days : — 



" Ere you purchase any lot scan the legs of sires and dams of urns, 

 For sure it's those with bandy legs what begets the bandy 

 legged uns." 



Not having learnt Latin (wliich, hy the hy, none 

 of my progeny shall until they have first learnt to 

 distinguish straight legs from crooked ones) I will 

 write a French proverb in return ; and though my 

 rendering may not be verbatim and literally correct, 

 still it is construed most appropriately for the Turf : — 



*' Bois tortu fait feu droit." 

 Crooked wooden legs make an even blaze for betting, 

 The veritable object being solely money getting, 



" Les achetez vous-meme, mais pas pour moi." 

 They'll do very well for the rich man, but not for us poor. 



And all who are not possessed of more money 

 than brains will leave them to the full enjoyment of 

 that enticing green, soft, and moist turf so admirably 

 adapted to their tender understandings. It is cruel 

 to put them to any other use than that for which they 

 have been so carefully educated. 



