DERBY DAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 120, 13 July 1911, Page 7

DERBY DAY.

0 “The Times,” in its report of Derby Day this year, when the King was present, wrote: “It has been noticed by a keen and constant observer of races and race-goers that the old personae dramatis of Derby Day are no longer to he seen. Some of them, no doubt* have vanished into the hirdless grove. But others have taken refuge in the cool nnerowded | night, from the hordes of motors, | which threaten to make the horse an anachronism on the day routes to Epsom. The coster with his muoh-en-during little Tussock’ was there at ■uiv rate in the morning dusk; so heavily laden was his cart that it seemed wonderful the weight of the passengers did not lift him into the sky. Among the wayfarers were a low visitors from the oversea Dominions; Australian shearers and Canadian cattlemen taking a cheap holiday to gee the wonders of their Motherland. They at least, did not forget to praise the lovliness of the English countryside, nil one great garden to their enraptured eyes . Later on in the day when they saw the vastness of the crowd they wore amazed and not ashamed to ut.ter their amazement. But none of them achieved the amusing knot juste’ such as that in which a Westerner, who had never boon east of Winnipeg, expressed his astonishment at the concourse in Minoru’s year. He lay back in his seat and gasped out: “Wa-al I’m hogwaggled’—a memorable aad mysterious saying.