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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ion Hall for horses in London, wascrowded at the book-making before theDerby day with a miscellaneous collec-tion of peers and plebeians and prize-fighters, butchers, bakers, and candle-stick-makers. farmers, soldiers, andeven ladies, — all anxious to indulge inthis form of gambling. The owner of aDerby winner, on one occasion, had toreceive £70,000 from the ring at Tatter-sails, and so strict are the regulationsthat on the settling day all this money,with the exception of £200 or £300, wasin the hands of his bankers. Jockeys like r.i l EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. Archer, Fordham, and Wood accumulatelarge fortunes; and Archer, who headsthe list of winning jockeys in Englandand France (for he often rides at theraces on Longchamps, in Paris), makesas much money as the most successfulof dramatic authors or leading actors. During thelast racingseason fivepro m i lie n tEnglish gen-tlemen, own-ers of lives t u d s o fhorses, wonmore than£10,000 each;Mr. T. Ham-mond winning£12,379; Mr.
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ON THE ROAD TO EPSOM. 1!. Peck, £11,906; the Duke of West-minster, £11,769 ; Mr. Manlon, £11,494 ;and Mr. Rothschild, £10,931. The return from the Derby is a. sight that. -e seen, is neverto he forgotten. Thousands of coaches, drags, light car-riages, omnibuses, and country wagonsstream down past the grand-stand, from which the view extends, on one side, toWindsor Castle, and on the other to St.Pauls Cathedral ; and all the way up toLondon, fifteen miles, along pleasantcountry roads, well dotted with rural inns,with furzy banks, copious forests, countryvalleys, surrounded with handsome shrub-bery,— there is a veritable carnival ofthe rudest horse-play and sport. Thenoisy people feel it their duty and. theirprivilege to attack quiet people, and astwo-thirds of the holiday-makers rideupon the topsof drags or in open wagonsa kind of battle goes on. Now and thenthe quiet people are provoked into re-taliation by streams of water poured onthem from squirt-guns, made especiallyfor the

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