Fifty years ago . THE SPORTSMAN 221 take your quadruped out of the way. Quadruped, eh % you be blowed ! its no quadruped, but as good a donkey as ever was fedupon hay. Oh, my ! ma : theres the course. What lots of people, and horses, and booths, and grand stands ! And what oceans of gipsies and jugglers, and barrel organs, and military bands ! And was ever such sights of Savoyards and French women singing and E-0-tables ? And horses rode up and down by little boys, or tied together in bundles, and put up in calimanco stables ; And look at that one, they call him Boney-Tparte. Did you ever in a
Fifty years ago . THE SPORTSMAN 221 take your quadruped out of the way. Quadruped, eh % you be blowed ! its no quadruped, but as good a donkey as ever was fedupon hay. Oh, my ! ma : theres the course. What lots of people, and horses, and booths, and grand stands ! And what oceans of gipsies and jugglers, and barrel organs, and military bands ! And was ever such sights of Savoyards and French women singing and E-0-tables ? And horses rode up and down by little boys, or tied together in bundles, and put up in calimanco stables ; And look at that one, they call him Boney-Tparte. Did you ever in all your lifetime see a leaner ? And Royal Dinner Saloons (for royalty the knives might have been a little brighter, and thelinen a little cleaner); And women with last-dying speeches in one hand, and in the other all the best new comic songs ; And, dear me ! how funnily that gentleman sits his horse ; for all the world just like a pair oftongs. And—clear the course ! clear the course ! Oh, dear ! now the great
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