CHAPTER IV.

HORSE-RACING.

Horse a Noble Beast, no doubt--Races prohibited by Civil Law--Revived under new name--Agricultural Fair, and what may be seen thereat--Ludicrous side of things--Twenty gawky Boys with their Colts--Strange Man and Horse--Science--Victory--The Effect on gawky Boys--Reasons against Horse-racing--Expense--Bets--Fraud--Riot-- Villainy of All Sorts--How the thing is done, and the People cheated--Quotation from Thomas Hughes, M.P., Page 63