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would be rarely baffled by a two-legger, I doubt 

 their ever being able to beat to windward of their 

 adversaries. Try then " Reculez pour mieux santer." 



But what is to be done with those paradoxical 

 politicians who have striven to upset this betting test 

 of crucial education, and to lead the country off the 

 proper scent ? The subject in dispute is not the 

 keeping of human heads straight so much as the 

 keeping of horses' legs straight, and morality consists 

 quite as much in the one as in the other, but as the 

 two sciences are admitted to be most intimately inter- 

 twined, the legislature will consequently best arrange 

 by taking them both in unison. With regard to 

 Messrs. Green and Gander, who, at the instigation of 

 Messrs. Muff and Milksop, proposed to abolish betting 

 merely because there would then be no other method 

 left of proving who might be right and who wrong ; 

 and who stated that if abolished it was to be hoped 

 that would bring on a fling at Tattersall's, they, seeing 

 the utter discomfiture, not to say ducking, they were 

 likely to bring on themselves, by attempting to bring a 

 civilized state into such a chaos, instantly recanted, 

 and disclaimed any such interpretation of their words. 

 Mr. Green said he had been misinterpreted, and 

 Mr. Gander said he had been misreported, and that 

 what Mr. Green really did mean, and what Mr. Gander 



