Year: 1874


he social scale, among the pitiful rascas who play
he same game of treachery and fraud with shillings
instead of pounds. He likes horses, as do. and l
promised myself to explain to him the organized
system of protracted cruelty by which half grown
.nimals are raced for the profit of their owners He
likes men also, and thought could make point
by showing him the stamp of the hoof on their faces
and how the same degradation comes on them from
their cruelty to horses used to mark the slave
holder from his cruelty to his sfelow-creatures-the
master getting the worst Of it in both cases.


All these things 60 quickly through my mind as
we walk leisurely up from the station, aud many
more less serious 1t is impossible not to be exhlar
ated by the air. There is champagne in 1T, as re-
mark to L., just then feeling in his pockets for on
other sxpence which he proposes to bestow on q
brawling Impostor who has borrowed baby and IS
begging for bread aud milk for the dear little dar-
ling (pinching herr for the lsve God, dear gentle
men, with another pinch and confident look into
LIS susceptible facel. 1t was an unlucky remark
1t suggested lunch. The breezes OF the Downs are
conducive to appetite, and there Is dust enough
along the trodden route from the station 10
Justify man in saying he is thirsty. IL. lets MS
sixpence stay where it belongs and turns to me to
nsk if | don't think it would be we'll to find our
party before we 90 about much. Am sure know





two wears ago. and that the carriage is to be IN the
same spot preciselycose to the rails, just opposite
the north end of the Grand Stand. And add care
lessly that have 10 objection to showing him the
place at once and introducing him. because 1t VIII
be convenient to have a rendezvous IN case We
should get separated in the crowd


30 with some patience and much squeezing and
shouldering. we made our way past the Jockeys
Gate above the Stand aud on to the course crossed
it. and beg IN to look for our party They were not
70 be seen on The precise spot indicated so hhe"
they must have got away later than they meant
aud found the old place already occupied. told L..
we would stroll o little way up the course lney
cou,d not be far and would be sure to be In 'front.'
ond ,v coold not miss them We strolled on accord
;nolv a httle way l.. then observed that two pairs
of ewes were better than one, and that II would
descr,he my friends to him he would look with me.
I noted this as another sign that IL. was think
ing good deal about lunch, but l told
him he was to cast about 1or nah
of moderate hight black mustaese, the rest Oh the
face clean shaveu, and spectacles 1t was surprising
to see the number of men L. discovered In the next
fveminutes of moderate hight and black mustaches,
the rest of the face clean shaven and specacles de
said he thoaght had better describe some Oh the
others. did. said there would also be tall man
with blonde mustache and whiskers and no spec
tacles, and a lady Without am not going to give
Won in print q description of a lady. 1t would not
be proper Yet again, the number of persons whom
l.. declared to correspond in every particular
with my account was most extraordinary
I began to think my description must
be incomplete. or l.. getting very hungry
indeed We pushed slowly along. The crowd on
foot was dense and not easily penetrabe. The
crowd of carriages was six deep. We saw the Derby
/ will venture to say, more thoroughly than most
people, meaning by the Derby the spectators OF the
same. After we had gone past the long rows OF car
riages near the Stand went back again, and then
on the other side of them. and then far beyond to
where the serried ranks grew thin, and so on until
we found ourselves at Tottenham Corner. which Is
to the Derby course what Corey Reach Is to the
oourse ON the Thames from Putney to MOrtlake The
ground rises here and looked back there IN the
distance were the black masses through which we
had come and beyond them the slopiDg solid spaces
of human beings on the balconies and roof of the
Grand Stand and beneath the canvas awnings of
the six or eight smaller stands on either side. And
in that great the friends we had come to
1oin were not to be found 1t was past 2. The
bell was tOlng TO clear the course tor the hrst race
L. began 10 eye me with what seemed to mo suspl-
cion One or two words that fell from him indicated
a doubt whether had been really asked to lunch
NV ANYBODY. He grew moody and sank into silence.
Il
ON the race on which had depended for enlivening
this letter.


But how stupid to come all this distance! OF
course they were on the Hill. They said they would
be directly opposite the Grand Stand They had
been belated and when they arrived. and found 1T
impossible to take the carriage to the rails, they
drove to the Hill because that was also directly OPP
posite. at once explained this to l.. He was fast
sinking into torpor lone OF the wel-known stages OF
starvinp, but this reused him. He asked resolutey
which is the nearest way to the Hill. he put aside
INV suggestion that some other way would show us
more of the race just then coming OFT. Sure OF the
spot had pointed out he turned his back on the
Corner and went away at a great pace,
looking neither to the right nor the left.
followed. / half wished had not spoken quite so
Confidently. We reached the Hill. A drag with four
horses reached it from the other side at the same
time Four wretched horses, scratch am, no two
alike in color or anything else. The off leader made
a vicious plunge at the groom, who had him by the
head rolled the groom over on the ground and per-
formed war dance in the air with his two fore feet
directly over LIS head. / shuddered. H., instead
of getting out of the way was looking on the top OF
the drag for man of moderate hight with black
mustache the rest of his face clean shaveD, and spec
taoles When he had become satisfied the man
was not there, nor the other man. he turned
eloomily away, and the horses fore feet came
down ON the ground, and not on LIS head.
4 said to L.. Really You shouldn't do that sort of
thing; you will get hurt He glared at me. do
not think be understood what meant. He went on
from carriage to carriage, Several times he was on
the point of joining party which clearly contained
nobody of moderate hight with black mustache,
tho rest of his face clean shaven, and spectacles
The sight of food and wine became odious to him.
We did not find our party. We found man who
sold oranges. We bought four, sat down on the
crass and ate them. 1t was ten minutes to 3. The


St roo. xas over that dreadful hell tollin mourn-