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office to Midhurst in no time, and can beat the 

 train. 



Of course, when you come to the racecourse 

 itself there are indeed alterations. The old 

 stands and buildings have gone. Being gone, 

 we might say nothing but good of the former 

 installations or say nothing at all. That last 

 would be scarcely fair and quite ungrateful, for 

 if the buildings were not suitable for the custom 

 that had grown, and grown out of all knowledge, 

 as Sussex people say, and failed to give all that 

 was wanted, they seemed to serve well enough 

 before we began to get so particular, and 

 everybody must have the best berth in the ship. 

 Bear in mind, people raced differently when 

 George Tattersall put up the stand we knew, and 

 the idea that on a racecourse you should have as 

 good a lunch as would serve for a lord's wedding 

 breakfast, with attendance to match, and at about 

 a third the price, had not even germinated. 



