Related article: graphical sketches of numerous
well-known racing men, after the
manner of Mr. Black's " Jockey
Club and its Founders.*' The
heading *' Ascot Buy Metronidazole Online Race Course "
suggests an account of the varia-
tions in the courses during two
centuries, but this hope is disap-
pointed, in spite of the convenient
map which confronts us. There
is, however, a store of information
about the stands, &c., which may
be useful. Trainers and jockeys
receive a meed of attention. A
list of the winners of the Gold
Cup, the Vase, and the Royal
Hunt Cup, with numerous illus-
trations, often excellent likenesses
from photographs, deserves men-
tion. In addition there is an ap-
pendix giving a complete list of
winners, owners, seconds and
thirds, with chief conditions of the
races since the course was made.
The blank between the years 1760
and 1768 is left unexplained.
The illustrations, two of which
we are allowed by the courtesy
of the publishers to reproduce,
are very numerous and generally
well chosen.
Some Bets and their Subjects.
Almost as long as any records of
sport are to be found, betting or
gambling of some kind or other
has been connected with them ;
while it need hardly be pointed out
that plenty of gambling has taken
place over matters quite uncon-
nected with sport. There is the
time-honoured story of Lord
Alvanley and some other specula-
tive friend taking reluge on the
leeside of a hayrick during a heavy
rain storm and beguiling the time
by wagering who would pull out
the longest piece of hay. The
bets Cheap Metronidazole I am about to mention, how-
ever, are not hackneyed like the
hayrick story. Long before Lord Purchase Metronidazole Online
Alvanley and his friend invented
the hay-pulling device, that is to
say in 1763, the coffee-house
idlers hit upon quite a new Metronidazole Buy form
of gambling, which like most
other phases of gratuitous specu-
lation was beautifully simple,
consisting of adding up the num-
bers on the plate of Purchase Metronidazole each hackney
coach passing the window of the
coffee house Each person staked
a shilling in readiness, and when
a hackney coach was seen ap-
proaching betting began. Twelve
was the fixed number ; but anyone
could give a total under or over
twelve, and he whose guess was
nearest to the actual total made
by adding up all the numbers on
the plates, won. Suppose a
coach's number to have been 189.
These figures added together make
eighteen, so that any person who
wagered on seventeen would win
in the event of the rest of the
party standing on a lesser number.
The game so far commended itself
to the sharps that they made a
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SOMB BETS AND THBIR SUBJECTS.
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Study of the different hackney
men, their vehicles, and their
horses, took the numbers, and
tried to learn as many as possible,
and if it so happened that there
was a run of coaches from some
oeighbouring stand the astute
persons were paid for their trouble,
and some Metronidazole 500mg of them must have been
present on a certain occasion
when Order Metronidazole Online three barristers from the
Temple lost more than five
guineas each in a couple of hours
at a shilling a coach.
The attempt to identify certain
hackney coaches with certain
numbers reminds one of the story
told about the eccentric Lord
Barry more, who, when he had
given up his staghounds, Numi-
dian horn players, his private
theatre at Wargrave, and other
luxuries, was compelled to live in
rather humble chambers in Lon-
don. A friend who called on him
one morning was astonished to
find his lordship on his knees in a
room from which every article of
furniture had been removed. Piles
of halfpennies were on the floor,
and Lord Barrymore was busily
engaged in arranging these on the
floor in rows, every coin touching
its neighbour. The reason of this
task was Buy Metronidazole not given at the time,
but it leaked out later on when
Lord Barrymore had some friends
at his rooms, and, leading up to
the subject Metronidazole Online he offered to make a
bet that no one present would
guess within a certain Where To Buy Metronidazole number
how many halfpennies would
cover the floor. This was of
course good enough to bet upon,
and all the friends made their
several estimates of the number
required, estimates which, it is
needless to say, were not quite so
accurate as that of the host of the
evening.
Mention was made above of the
hayrick gamble, and a haystack Where Can I Buy Metronidazole
has played an important part in
an irregular kind of wager. Metronidazole 500 Mg The
scene was laid in 500mg Metronidazole Leeds, where in
August, 1760, Mr. Abraham
Walker bought from Mr. William
Northouse a stack of old hay, the
produce of four acres of meadow
land. The rick was estimated to
contain 500 Mg Metronidazole about eight ordinary cart-
loads, and the price was no more
than forty shillings for the whole
upon condition that the buyer
took it all away at once. Should
he fail to do this the price was to
be twenty pounds. By the way,
there was a stipulation that no
more than three horses were to be
used to move the rick. Mr.
Walker was a man of resource, so
he sought out the London carrier ;
secured the use of his broad
wheeled waggon and three horses,
transferred the hay to the waggon, Generic Metronidazole
and successfully had Metronidazole To Buy it drawn over
the two miles to his yard. The
conveyance and its burden looked,
says the chronicler, *' like a mov-
ing Metronidazole Where To Buy mountain." It was, however,
a very cheap purchase, while the
seller and his friends who had
betted two to one against the
accomplishment of the task lost
their money, a good deal of it
accompanying the hay to Mr.
Walker's Buy Cheap Metronidazole premises.
In the year 1767 there was a
somewhat similar arrangement in
the case of some faggots, which
a Hertfordshire farmer had for
sale, and which was eventually
the subject of no little betting.
The price was eighteen shillings
per hundred, exclusive of carriage.
A little man who came to buy
said that he Metronidazole 500 would carry them
himself, whereupon the seller, who
thought that Order Metronidazole he saw his way to
making a little money, made the
proposal that if the buyer should
carry eighteen of them to his own
house every day (Sunday ex-
cepted) without missing one, he
might have them for his pains,
but that if he failed before he had
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