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pleasure of passing the time of day with them 

 and a couple of attendants whom they take about 

 for company. A couple of fine old swells these 

 retired sportsmen, Mr Suspender and Mr Isin- 

 glass. Mostly they toddled down from Cheveley 

 to Newmarket to fetch the papers, going by the 

 Duchess's drive and coming back by the Ashley 

 road. Better pals than they and their attendants 

 you could not desire, nor men prouder of their 

 charges — proud as the cocky pheasants who here- 

 abouts abound in marvellous foliage, as the 

 gardener said of the other thing, and by the 

 thousand too. 



Our owners, trainers, and others at New- 

 market, holders of houses or stables interesting to 

 the public, might confer a great boon on strangers 

 by labelling their establishments legibly. Tens 

 of thousands pass in and out of the little town in 

 the course of a few years, and most of them 

 depart no wiser in local topography than when 

 they first set foot in the place. Certainly a house 

 is the Englishman's castle, private to the pro- 

 prietor if anything can be, and good folk do hate 

 advertising themselves ; so objection on the latter 

 score might easily be considered as fatal to the 

 idea of cataloguing places. At the same time, so 

 marking them off need do no harm, and must be 

 of great service to the uninitiated who seek to 

 localise estabHshments of which they read and 

 hear so much. They do want to see for them- 

 selves where this, that, and the other bygone 

 swell performer was housed while in training, and 

 are still more curious concerning current celebri- 

 ties. iVlso is wanted a cheap map of the Heath. 

 The only one I know would be dear at the price 

 if it served for, say, the United Kingdom, with 



