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and its tower. Do we lead a country life, rising 

 betimes, and retiring to roost correspondingly- 

 early ; or is the custom in this part of the country 

 to lengthen the days by taking a bit out of the 

 night, boys ! The lot of us on the average set 

 Newmarket's grand air, grand water, and fine 

 meat an unfair trial — viz., to keep us from going 

 back instead of "keeping" as we ought, to use 

 the North-country word. In brief, the practice 

 is to ask to be done up, and work towards that 

 end ; and yet, thanks to beneficial surroundings 

 and accessories, you mostly come out with a 

 balance to the good in hand. If such desirable 

 results can be and are achieved under severe 

 handicapping, what price Newmarket for health 

 resorters honestly bent on turning its good gifts 

 — among which I number the mutton, especially 

 the mutton, and the clean grown vegetables — to 

 best account. Please understand me to be keep- 

 ing out of view making our Newmarket a 

 sanatorium or cure centre, which always must 

 carry a lot of depression with it as the proportion 

 of invalids to the sound, or, at any rate, the 

 active service hands is increased beyond normal 

 proportions. I simply ask what price New- 

 market as a desirable residential district for folk 

 to come and enjoy life in, building themselves up 

 the while ? Half the people sent to be braced up 

 at the seaside are at the wrong place when they 

 get there, because the sea air and their livers 

 cannot rub on together. For these inland, with 

 quite as strong air, but none of the blinky, 

 owly, sluggish sleepiness affecting certain con- 

 stitutions while on the coast, works like a charm. 

 If you go to Newmarket, ask for restoration, and 

 do not get it, you must be very unlucky. Any- 



