46 BIPEDS AKD QUADiUTPEDS. 



highest of our aristocracy, undoubtedly bring within 

 a square half mile a greater mass of the scum of 

 the earth, and a greater amount and amalgamation 

 of all that is low, iniquitous, and despicable, than 

 any other annual event of a sporting nature ; though 

 a true lover of racing, I hate the place, and should 

 any other of 'equal importance within the same dis- 

 tance of the metropolis. I hate it on the ground of 

 ite congregating a greater number of miscreants than 

 any other place, though, in sooth, the railroad now 

 supplies a very liberal sample of such at most 

 meetings. Epsom is notorious as having immolated 

 more horses in their day's work to and from it, than 

 any town in the United Kingdom, or the world ; 

 the way to it is long, the weather usually oppressively 

 hot, and the dust only equalled by that of the desert, 

 under the influence of the simoon ; every wretched 

 cripple that it is thought can be made go the dis- 

 tance, is put in requisition, and, as regards the vehicle 

 it draws, its strongest recommendation is the greatest 

 amount in numbers of merciless animation that it 

 will contain. Because the light barouche of the noblg 



