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not open your trunk and put it in ; and if you did, 

 I do not think it would travel well with your 

 shirts, &c. ; and to sit with a dead duck in your 

 lap the whole way back to down would be 

 trying. 



Most interesting it is to go in the early morning 

 to the training-grounds, and look at the racers at 

 exercise. Here you see them in every stage, from 

 the yearling just being led about quietly with a 

 lunging rein on to the adult racer taking his final 

 spin, previously to competing for some stake, and a 

 finer spectacle than this last cannot be seen : the 

 magnificent animal in perfect condition, his satin 

 coat, showing the play of the muscles underneath, 

 striding along at his top speed, untouched by whip 

 or spur, is a perfect picture of beauty. You see 

 many people out watching the horses, some merely 

 through fondness for horseflesh, but many of the 

 genus " tout." How people can be found weak 

 enough to believe in their " tips " it is hard to con- 

 ceive ; for if a " trial " is properly managed, and 

 the stable secrets well kept, not even the lads them- 

 selves know the weights the horses are run at, or 

 even the exact distance, so the " tips " of these 

 gentry must be the veriest guesses possible. They 

 adopt wonderful disguises, under the fallacious idea 

 that they shall not be detected. There is one con- 



