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A Queer Career.
" twopenny rope dodge" and breakfast alfresco , when they breakfast at all , at a coifeestall in the Waterloo Eoad . That hat , poor fellow , is his badge , his crest , his credentials , his " Luck , " * and he cherishes it accordingly . I have only seen him otherwise crowned three times—the first of these occasions I proceed at once to describe . " She wore a wreath of roses the night when first we met . " "Well , on the first
occasion on which I met Mr . Mole it was afternoon , and he wore a Joinville tie . It was on Epsom Downs , on the Derby Day of 1844 , " Eunning Eein's " year" Orlando's " year—that I first beheld him . Axe you puzzled , patient but not sportive reader , that I cite two equine titles for the winner of the blue ribbon in one year ? Oh , unsophisticated peruser ! Have you never heard of the safe wager at long odds , that there isn't an "Angel at Islington" and how the taker is " let in" bthe
, y authentic information that the renowned hostelry bearing that sign is situate in Clerkenwell' ? Similarly have you never heard the assertion made , on the responsibility of an offer to back the statement , that the first horse past the winning post has not always won the Derby ? To try to pull off the stakes by the paltry equivocation that the winner has sometimes been a mare , is mean and unworthy ; but it is perfectly legitimate , I believe , according to gamblers' ethics , to "land your coin" by demonstrating that
in 1844 the first animal past the winning post was that racer , sailing under false colours , or rather galloping under an assumed name , " Eunning Eein , " and the second , General Peel ' s horse " Orlando , " and that the latter was subsequently declared the winner from the fact of the equine impostor having been entered under or over—I forget which—the regulation age—so that you see the above instanced gambling proposition may be safely—mind I do not say morally—made , and the result secured , wholly independent of the question of sex .
1844 ! Thirty-five years ago ! " The days of a man's life are but three score and ten years , " and , as actuaries will assure you , the psalmist has made a pretty liberal calcidation ; and , here am I carrying my memory back , without an effort , half of this tolerably long term ! What odd unrecorded experiences contribute to our adequately realizing our progress in age ! The French female savant philosophically noted how , as she advanced in life , men no longer tinned in the street to look after her , and comestimated that her
posedly powers of attraction decreased in the ratio of the hypotheueuse to the semi-square . I adopt a less learned test . Time was when the majority of people I miscellaneously encountered seemed older than myself . Time is when I feel that I am the elder of nearly all whom I meet . I am not a betting man , but in this case I wouldn't mind wagering—say a level sixpence—that the vastly preponderating majoritof those who read this disquisition will be juniors—babes by
comparisony my children , who have to make an effort to carry their minds back to the Indian Mutiny , and regard the Crimean War much as I do ' Walcheren and the Peninsular Campaign and Waterloo—as something too remote to realise . How many of ye visited the Exhibition of 1851 ? Infants ! ye can no more imagine what life—society—high and low— dress—manners—pursuits , noble and plebeian , were like in 1844 than ye can depict to yourselves the image of the time when—in her palace in
Troy" Queen Dido at the window sat , A darnin' of her stockin ' , oh !" Ton ? Come now ! How many of you , do you think , could at a competitive examination perform this exercise , "Describe a Joinville tie . At what period was it worn as a fashionable part of the costume ? Of what material was it usually constructed ? From what celebrated individual did it derive its name ? What circiunstance about the time of its
introduction had made that individual conspicuous ? Was it an article of male or female attire ?" ( Of course I have given you the " straight tip" anent this . ) How many of you , I repeat , could earn a single mark in this branch of domestic history without previous " cram ?" If I were your " coach " I'd make you give a shilling for poor dear Albert Smith ' s
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A Queer Career.
" twopenny rope dodge" and breakfast alfresco , when they breakfast at all , at a coifeestall in the Waterloo Eoad . That hat , poor fellow , is his badge , his crest , his credentials , his " Luck , " * and he cherishes it accordingly . I have only seen him otherwise crowned three times—the first of these occasions I proceed at once to describe . " She wore a wreath of roses the night when first we met . " "Well , on the first
occasion on which I met Mr . Mole it was afternoon , and he wore a Joinville tie . It was on Epsom Downs , on the Derby Day of 1844 , " Eunning Eein's " year" Orlando's " year—that I first beheld him . Axe you puzzled , patient but not sportive reader , that I cite two equine titles for the winner of the blue ribbon in one year ? Oh , unsophisticated peruser ! Have you never heard of the safe wager at long odds , that there isn't an "Angel at Islington" and how the taker is " let in" bthe
, y authentic information that the renowned hostelry bearing that sign is situate in Clerkenwell' ? Similarly have you never heard the assertion made , on the responsibility of an offer to back the statement , that the first horse past the winning post has not always won the Derby ? To try to pull off the stakes by the paltry equivocation that the winner has sometimes been a mare , is mean and unworthy ; but it is perfectly legitimate , I believe , according to gamblers' ethics , to "land your coin" by demonstrating that
in 1844 the first animal past the winning post was that racer , sailing under false colours , or rather galloping under an assumed name , " Eunning Eein , " and the second , General Peel ' s horse " Orlando , " and that the latter was subsequently declared the winner from the fact of the equine impostor having been entered under or over—I forget which—the regulation age—so that you see the above instanced gambling proposition may be safely—mind I do not say morally—made , and the result secured , wholly independent of the question of sex .
1844 ! Thirty-five years ago ! " The days of a man's life are but three score and ten years , " and , as actuaries will assure you , the psalmist has made a pretty liberal calcidation ; and , here am I carrying my memory back , without an effort , half of this tolerably long term ! What odd unrecorded experiences contribute to our adequately realizing our progress in age ! The French female savant philosophically noted how , as she advanced in life , men no longer tinned in the street to look after her , and comestimated that her
posedly powers of attraction decreased in the ratio of the hypotheueuse to the semi-square . I adopt a less learned test . Time was when the majority of people I miscellaneously encountered seemed older than myself . Time is when I feel that I am the elder of nearly all whom I meet . I am not a betting man , but in this case I wouldn't mind wagering—say a level sixpence—that the vastly preponderating majoritof those who read this disquisition will be juniors—babes by
comparisony my children , who have to make an effort to carry their minds back to the Indian Mutiny , and regard the Crimean War much as I do ' Walcheren and the Peninsular Campaign and Waterloo—as something too remote to realise . How many of ye visited the Exhibition of 1851 ? Infants ! ye can no more imagine what life—society—high and low— dress—manners—pursuits , noble and plebeian , were like in 1844 than ye can depict to yourselves the image of the time when—in her palace in
Troy" Queen Dido at the window sat , A darnin' of her stockin ' , oh !" Ton ? Come now ! How many of you , do you think , could at a competitive examination perform this exercise , "Describe a Joinville tie . At what period was it worn as a fashionable part of the costume ? Of what material was it usually constructed ? From what celebrated individual did it derive its name ? What circiunstance about the time of its
introduction had made that individual conspicuous ? Was it an article of male or female attire ?" ( Of course I have given you the " straight tip" anent this . ) How many of you , I repeat , could earn a single mark in this branch of domestic history without previous " cram ?" If I were your " coach " I'd make you give a shilling for poor dear Albert Smith ' s