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-LRB- Cheers , Counter-cheers . -RRB- And if she wins to-morrah -- as she will -LRB- cheers -RRB- , ` Given fair play ' '' came a voice from the back . '' _ That _ she will get -- -LRB- cheers and boos -RRB- -- the people of this country will rejoice that another edifice has been laid to the mighty brick -- ah of Anglo-Saxon fellowship on which the hope , and I think I may say , the happiness of the world depends . '' The evening ended , as the Liverpool _ Herald _ reported , at two in the morning , when Abe Gideon , the bark-blocks comedian , was hoisted on to the table and sang the _ Mocassin Song _ to a chorus that set the water in the docks rocking . The Sefton Arms Old Mat never stopped in Liverpool for the big race . That was partly because everybody else did , and partly because he always preferred The Sefton Arms upon the course . When his little daughter first took to accompanying her dad to the National she used to stay the night with a Methodist cousin of her mother 's and join her father on the course next morning .