Amid the whirl of rout, and ball, and picnic, race-meeting, polo-match, and what-not, Paul Howard Alexis stalked misunderstood, distrusted; an object of ridicule to some, of pity to others, of impatience to all.

It's commonest at race-meetings but you'll find it anywhere in the world where vagrant men of means foregather.

It was the day when President Loubet was cowardly assailed at a race-meeting by the friends and partisans of the foolish Duke of Orleans; but of all that we remained (pro tem.) in blissful ignorance.

Here funny little race-meetings are held, beginning on Easter Monday and continuing at intervals until the weather gets too hot.

Not a civilised Government in the world would dream of enforcing payment, any more than a magistrate would enforce a payment to some thimble-rigger returning from a race-meeting.

It is like a fellow-creature or a race-meeting; the sporting element is added, and you never know what a single day may bring forth.

The number of people now giving their attention to it has called for a notable increase in the number of race-meetings, and stake-money is being put up on a more generous scale than at any previous time in the history of the sport.

The result of this forward policy is that increasing numbers come to our race-meetings and that the turf has never been more popular than it is today.

Write also stating whether any recognised race-meeting is held in the immediate vicinity.

Now and again Society seeks relief from its load of care by emigrating en masse for the day to a race-meeting at Sandown or Kempton.

Is it likely that a race-meeting of any pretensions can possibly do without one whom even his enemies acknowledge to be the only accurate and high-minded sporting writer in the world?

Mr. Punch flatters himself that, upon the above model, the report of any race-meeting could be accurately constructed at home.