Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 452 من الصفحات |
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... Jockey something like these instructions : แ Now , George , I am particularly anxious to win the Stakes on Wednesday : if you find you can win to - day at your ease , do so ; if , on the contrary , you find you will have to take a great ...
... Jockey something like these instructions : แ Now , George , I am particularly anxious to win the Stakes on Wednesday : if you find you can win to - day at your ease , do so ; if , on the contrary , you find you will have to take a great ...
الصفحة 17
... jockey , or stable - boy , he of course brings himself to their level , or below it . If he also chooses , for the sake of making up his book , to associate ( we will allow only pro tempore ) , consult , and bet with blacklegs and ...
... jockey , or stable - boy , he of course brings himself to their level , or below it . If he also chooses , for the sake of making up his book , to associate ( we will allow only pro tempore ) , consult , and bet with blacklegs and ...
الصفحة 39
... Jockey , the Steeple - chase Rider , the Bull - baiter , and Dog - fighter - even the Gentleman , if he is merely a " bookless sauntering youth , proud of the scut that dignifies his cap " -will all deny that there is a particle of ...
... Jockey , the Steeple - chase Rider , the Bull - baiter , and Dog - fighter - even the Gentleman , if he is merely a " bookless sauntering youth , proud of the scut that dignifies his cap " -will all deny that there is a particle of ...
الصفحة 46
... and when he comes to the post , though he may generally expect severe ex- ertion and sometimes severe punishment , both the one and the other are of very short duration , and the HINTS TO YOUNG JOCKEYS . 47 latter , if a.
... and when he comes to the post , though he may generally expect severe ex- ertion and sometimes severe punishment , both the one and the other are of very short duration , and the HINTS TO YOUNG JOCKEYS . 47 latter , if a.
الصفحة 47
... jockeys their whip and spurs when a hundred yards from home , and not till then , it would be all the better ; for I ... jockey of him . As to the gentlemen jocks , if there were ten of them , I should like to flog at least nine before ...
... jockeys their whip and spurs when a hundred yards from home , and not till then , it would be all the better ; for I ... jockey of him . As to the gentlemen jocks , if there were ten of them , I should like to flog at least nine before ...
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الصفحة 394 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.