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_HIM_ going to ride for us! _HIM_ -- / with the pants and the eyeglass and all. / Amateur! don't he just look it -- it's twenty to one on a fall. / Boss must be gone off his head to be sending our steeplechase crack / Out over fences like these with an object like that on his back.
Ride! Don't tell _ME_ he can ride. / With his pants just as loose as balloons, / How can he sit on his horse? and his spurs like a pair of harpoons; / Ought to be under the Dog Act, he ought, and be kept off the course. / Fall! why, he'd fall off a cart, let alone off a steeplechase horse.