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DICKENS PICKED THREE AVINNERS. Charles Dickens happened to he in Doncaster one Lexer day. The story of his "spotting three win ners" on that occasion is told in Forsters life ot the great novelist: "He bought the card, facetiously wrote down three names as the winners of the three chief races never in his life having heard or thought of any of the horses, except that the winner of the Derby, which proved to be nowhere, had been mentioned to him. In a letter to his biographer he says: " If you can believe it, without your hair f Lind iug on end. those three races were won one after another by those three horses. " Dickens truly described this as a "wonderful, paralyzing coincidence."
