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authenticated fact that Fuskerman was two stone and a half 
the better horse. I may add I never saw the tables turned ; 
a fat horse beating a thin one so vastly his superior ; nor do I 
think any one else ever did.! 
I think I may fairly assume enough has been said to 
convince even the sceptical that horses must and do run light 
from other causes than overwork or mismanagement. But 
I am prepared to do more: to assert that as a matter of fact 
there are more horses insufficiently trained and looking too big 
than there are overdone with work. J mean of course for long 
distance races, not short ones; for which, as less work will 
suffice, horses may be run bigger. I am strenuous on this 
point; but I may remind the reader that I am not descanting 
on the merits or usages of this or the other trainer; but am 
contending for a principle in the superiority of which I myself 
1 Turning from the horse to the human being, the condition of pedestrians may 
be taken as an instance to point my observations. A, pedestrian when fit to 
walk a long or short distance looks: starved, more like a skeleton than a man in 
robust health living upon the most nutritious food without stint. At the time 
“* Corkey”’ accomplished his surprising six days’ walk at the Agricultural Hall he 
weighed but eight stone : a proof that he was neither fat nor in what is ordinarily 
supposed to be good condition. Fattest men are not as a rule the greatest eaters, 
nor do they confine themselves to a diet more nutritious than that of the spare and 
meagre. The late Mr, Banting could not check his obesity by abstinence in the 
matter of food. The nobility and gentry live well, yet as a rule they are spare 
men. In the workhouse or the cottage, on the other hand, we find those who 
fatten on the poorest of food, and in many cases an insufficiency of that. In my 
own experience I remember Mr. F. H then living at Exeter, a very thin man, 
to all appearance but half fed, who once at the instigation of Mr. S 
(on 
whose authority I give the anecdote) undertook to eat a roasting pig for supper— 
and did it ; a feat that probably would have bothered the renowned Dan Lambert. 
Vet until the day of his death he remained as cadaverous and as thin as ever, in 
spite of his appetite. A correspondent of the Zavcet lately sent particulars to 
that paper of the case of Mr. W. Campbell, landlord of ‘‘the Duke of Welling 
ton,” Newcastle on Tyne, who “‘stands 6 feet 4 inches, and weighs over 50 stone,” 
yet, “his appetite is not more than an average one, and although not an abstainer, 
he is moderate in his drinking,” 
