A Revelation.

Few students would have regarded George Dixon as a "horsey" man, but the following extract from his "Plunket" speech reveals a secret:—

"Lord Shaftsbury was sometimes accused of riding a hobby horse. Perhaps he did, but if a man has not got a groom to help him, it is a mistake to ride more than one horse. Besides, that hoers was a thoroughbred, and it carried him for more than half a century in the Grand National Reform Steeplechase. The horse's name was page 60 Humanity, its trainer was Public Health, and its rider Education; yet that arch-handicapper Party Polities year after year, placed him on scratch, and gave the limit to an old crock called Ignorance, whose rider was Vice, with the result that Ignorance won every time!

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