At Retford Grammar School on Tuesday the Duke of Portland
spoke of gambling and betting in exactly the right manner to impress his audience. " I have now," he said, "been connected with the turf and racing for nearly thirty years, and I can candidly tell you that during that time I have known no one who consistently went on betting or staking money on horses but in the long run found himself very much worse for having done so. Therefore, if you will take-the advice of a man of the world, I say to you—Don't gamble and don't bet." The advice of the " man of the world " who runs his horses regularly but never bets is more likely, we fancy, to impress plain-thinking schoolboys than the advice of men who profess a righteous horror of one of our worst national vices, but for all that supply numerous incentives to its continuance.
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