fictitious, and often changed; but whether or not, it is certain that those who advertised heaviest drove all small thieves from the field, and so, two years back, the business, as far as we are concerned, was carried on chiefly by Adkins & Wood, Robert Danby & Co., Marshall & Grant, and James Rawlings & Co., who advertised quite separately, but whose notifications might very easily have been the work of one pen. We will therefore take Rawlings & Co. to represent the fraternity, and in their advertisement which appeared at the end of April 1872 will be found the peculiarities of all the others. This is it:—
DIGBY GRAND sent to every season subscriber, and for a place at
6 to 1, to every reader of
THE PREMIER RACING CIRCULAR.
Proprietors,
JAMES RAWLINGS and Co.,
65, YORK PLACE,
EDINBURGH.
Published by the Proprietors every Saturday, at their chief office, 65 York Place, Edinburgh.
THE PREMIER