Nasby in Exile

ble business in the world. A horsey man, except in New York, is not looked upon with much favor,

race. I shall never forget it, for

of age in my face in the form of wrinkles. It is needless to say I was as im

orses which he used in racing, but he had one, "Nero," which commanded the confidence of all the sporting men for miles around. In a mile race he had never been beaten, and there were wild rumors, which obtaine

er intimated could lay out "Nero," without any particular trouble or worry. Carpenter laughed the m

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n Church, a dry goods store, and a blacksmith shop. But Plymouth absolutely boiled. Carpenter poured oil upon the fire by confidentially assuring everybody that "Nero" could get away with "Calico" without the slight

except Mr. Scobey and one or two others, and they held off at first, which gave Plymouth more confidence. So eager were we to despoil the adverse faction that we gave great odds, all of which Mr. Scobey and his confreres took, finally, with

another assault upon the purses of Greenfield. We did it. We gave even greater odds t

, "I will bet one

. Then Mr. Scobey offered to take even bets, and he would have got a grea

e seemingly did his best, and the jockeys seemed to ride properly. Alas

ey by the neck and pulled him from the horse, and accused him of giv

sy ez winkin. I'll run yoo two weeks from to-day at Plymouth for two h

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easy enough to charge up a poor horse to

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ent among us and assured that his own son should ride

but for a dash of a mile "Calico" could get away with him every time. We shared Mr. Scobey's opinion, and to Mr. Carpenter's disgust, Plymouth wagered all the money it could ra

s, we might have known in advance, that Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Scobey were in partnership, and that "Calico" was a horse hired from Cleveland for the occasion, and

are conducted fairly, for they are under the patronage of men to whom the honor of owning a winning horse is more than any amount of money that can possibly be won. The English noblemen want this honor, and they spend fabulous amounts of mon

a very jolly party, and none of the accompaniments were forgotten. An Englishman does nothing without a great plenty of eating and drinking, and s

in quick succession, and such a motley procession! There were lords and ladies, merchants and clerks, prostitutes and gamblers, workingmen and begg

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ns for the everlasting flunkies behind, without which no English establishment is complete. Then came the swarm of hansoms-which is a two-wheeled vehicle, with a calash top to it, carrying the driver on a high perch behind-the army of omnibusses, the tops covered with chaff

n to deliver goods. A half of these in London were at the Derby, hitched to a two-wheeled cart of twice their size, and seven heavy men and women would be packed therein, and this little mite bowled them along at a good pace, without being wo

t a slight amount of food he requires. He will breakfast on a tin tomato can, and relish a circus poster for dinner. He

t the throng becomes more than immense, it is terrific. The drivers of the vehicles, skillful as they are, have difficulty in guiding their

antastics, with false faces, spring up, the Lord knows from w

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d will not be disturbed. Every Englishman of the lower class knows all about it, and as for robbery, all that he has on him couldn't be pawned for a penny. Next to the boxing match was a street preacher of some denomination, armed with his testament and hymn-book, "holding forth" to a throng constantly coming and going. I didn't hear this one, for we were too much on pleasure bent to stop for a sermon, be it ever so good or our need for it ever so great. But I did hear one on th

on awful su

n and th

joined, some devoutl

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n being deprived of the company of angels and all that sort of thing, but he had a substantial, real hell, with actual fire and brimstone and real devils with red hot

stood listening, with his wife,

, I don't knaw but what I'll turn ar

tenances and their consciences, or their fright rather, in pots of beer that would swamp the most se

ibed they will find it. Their to-morrow for becoming good, like everybody else's, will never come. The negro who, when

and 'scurity I has, is i

u die too sudde

eeps myseff read

not altogether enjoyable. The only business done inside was the drawing and drinking of beer, and outside-heaven help an American-negro minstrelsy. Imagine three cockneys burnt corked, and dressed in trowsers striped in imitation of the Americ

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ks, and then when this doleful performance was finally accomplished, think of a negro melody sung in the genuine cockney dialect, and accepted as a correct representation of the American African. By the way, in a first-class music hall I heard an English minstrel use the wor

upon the soft grass is very hard to please. Exactly at noon the thousands of humble folk, the pony and donkey-cart people, stopped and unharnessed their diminutive power, and permitted it to crop the grass, while they unloaded those wonderful hampers, and spread them upon the grass and ate and dr

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sons for this. One is there is nobody to leave them with, and the other is there is a vague idea that it is a part of a child's education to know all about beer and public houses from its very beginning. Therefore, almost every woman on that road to the Derby, had from one to four children with her, the youngest very frequently being at the very tender age of a month. The husbands always permit the mother to assume the entire charge of the youngsters, and the wives accept the situation uncomplai

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of no question: "Penny, sir!" You pay it, for it is the custom of the country. It isn't for the water, but for the handing it to you. At every gate stands a man who asks for his penny as he opens it, and he gets it. It got to that point with me, that when I felt a breeze striking my face and I got a breath of fresh air, I instinctively turned

, sir, and it won't break you,

I asked a question I offered the penny, and

e "Derby" is only one of many races, but out of compliment to the Earl, it is counted the chief event of the racing season. The importance given to it m

come in. One horse wins, and a dozen lose; as in the American game of keno, one man exclaims "Keno!" and forty-nine utter a profane word. A quarter-race in Kentucky is precisely the same as the Derby, except that one is witnessed by a hundred men in jeans, and the other b

ory structure, was black with people, and as far as the eye could reach there was nothing but people. And, as it is in America, the people were there for everything except to see the races, which is proper. For if there be anything under heaven that is exasperating it is a horse race, unless it be a regatta. Except as an excuse for something else, I never could see why people went to either. To sit or stand for an hoar under

ast amount of money was lost and won on the event. As is known, "Iroquois" won the race by a very small majority, and the American eagle screamed with delight, and the British lion hung its head. The English felt more humiliated than they did when they lost the Colonies, and Arche

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ayed itself upon English soil, it became immediately necessary to drink to the flag, which was done with that promptness which has ever distinguished the genuine American. Parties of Americans would arm themselves with champagne bottles, and pass to the carriages displaying the flag, and insist upon the occupants partaking with t

me that it would have done just as well to have taken the lunch and the win

s off and he is entitled to it, with the resultant colic. There were hundreds and hundreds of tents, inside of which were cheap shows, precisely such as we see at State fairs and outside of circuses. As I gazed upon the enormous pictures of fat women, and bearded women, and Circassian beauties with enormous masses of hair, and the wonderful snakes, and the groups of genuine Zulu chiefs, and heard the inspiring tones of the hand organ, accompanied with the bass drum, and heard the man at the door im

, with bloated faces, on every inch of which was written "gin" in unmistakable characters, carrying wretched babies, beset you at every turn; and hideous hags, with unmistakable Irish brogue, thronged about the carriages wit

e father of a family! That old lady got nothing from me. But the good-natured fellows in the carriage did throw her pennies, which she took with the regular "G

promised speedy marriages, no husband being under the degree of a Duke, and all of them very handsome and very rich men. The girls paid their pennies and sixpences with great alacrity, and went home to dream of their goo

doors and steals all his food and the subsistence of his animals, and the animals themselves, it was great fun for him. Albeit, as he steals everything he uses and always proposes to, and never intends to reform and st

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in America the betting ring is under the control of the association owning the track; but it is not so here, as any number of Americans discovered. They had faith in "Iroquois," and "laid" their money on him freely. One gentleman of my acquaintance deposited ninety pounds sterling with a book-maker, and was consequently entitled to two hundred and seventy pounds sterling, as his horse won. In great glee he hied himself to the ring, after the race, to collect his winnings. He hied himself back to the carriage sadly. Had "Peregrine" won the race

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ling scoundrel

k, swindling devi

in, were you?" joyousl

was, thirty po

ere laughi

g all the confessions in, it was discovered that one carriage had deposited to the cre

asons stated at the beginning of this epistle, which sho

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be processions of broken heads, and funerals in plenty the next day. There is no question as to the Englishman's fighting qualities, but he does not fight on his holidays. There were "d-n his eyes," in plenty, and any quantity of talk, but no actual combats, except

the grounds were entirely deserted, except by the showmen and those who ha

usbands and brothers. You see them in the public houses standing at the bars with their husbands or lovers, pouring down huge measures of beer, and it is a toss which can drink the most, or which enjoys it the most keenly. It is certain that the woman gets drunk wit

kingman or woman is not a pleasant one; their pay is very sm

scriptions of the delights of a night's drinking, but why, oh why, have none of them eve

lay, shouting, cheering, singing, yelling, waving handkerchiefs, and all without the faintest idea of the object of either, till we struck th

mber are under the influence of liquor, and that they did it deliberately, and went there with no other idea. It rather lessens one's confidence in the future of the race, and leads one to the increasing of his donations to the home missionary societies. But it has always been so in

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