200 NEWMARKET 



rect, as it very often does, you get your money — 

 for the man has no intention of bolting, it would 

 not answer his purpose. But you shortly find out 

 what has occurred, and how you have been done. 

 After the race you compare notes with your friends, 

 feeling rather proud of winning. They ask the 

 price you got, and you say, " 0, 4 to 1." " 4 to 1 ? " 

 say they ; " why, his price was 7 to 1." And then 

 the murder comes out ; the scamp got 7 to 1 safe 

 enough, so that he comfortably pocketed the three 

 extra points, and in this way, until detected, doubt- 

 less makes a very nice thing of it. But he does not 

 often succeed in drawing the same man twice ; and 

 if you take his " tip," and then insist on getting the 

 odds yourself, his blank face of disgust is very 

 amusing ; but he takes care not to let you do this 

 a second time. 



At the Spring and Houghton Meetings great 

 amusement is derived from the strong " 'Varsity " 

 contingent ; these youths appearing in great force, 

 got up in the correctest of sporting costumes ; some 

 even going so far as breeches and boots, though they 

 do not as a rule trust themselves astride a horse at 

 the races, and certainly they get all the excitement 

 they can require in the short drive from the turn- 

 pike, just off the Cambridge road, down to the stand. 

 Up to this point, as the road has been wide and the 



