i8o ROUGH-DRIVING 



neighbourhood his denial is not emphatic. 

 Like a professional singer asked for a song, he 

 excuses himself, and pleads to a certain dry- 

 ness in the throat, but, when the money induce- 

 ments are sufficient, owns up that he thinks he 

 can ride. 



The rough riding of the range is incompar- 

 able, but as the broncho buster is usually 

 smashed internally if not killed outright within 

 three 3'ears of practice, this worst possible 

 method of breaking a horse is lacking in 

 practical value. 



Rough-Driving. Our rough-drivers are 

 perhaps the greatest horsemen living, and 

 their feats are the more glorious because there 

 are no spectators to give the stimulus of their 

 applause. A single example may be per- 

 mitted here : 



Constable Harty, of D Division in the Royal 

 North-West Mounted Pohce, was driving a 

 four-horse team with a waggonette, his pas- 

 sengers being the Earl and Countess of Aber- 

 deen, Viceroy and Vicereine of Canada. Ford- 

 ing one of the fiendish Alberta rivers the near 

 wheeler lay dowm and drowned herself, while 

 the waggonette, half afloat, was being tilted 

 in danger of capsizal. The teamster swam 

 under and with his knife attempted to cut the 



