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them makes the honour of winning them too cheap. But as 

 times move onward, it is inevitable that we must move with 

 them, and, whereas in the old days there were two dozen 

 men who rode, to-day there are ten times that number. 

 And so as a natural consequence in due course of time 

 the ''pony" man was bound to spring up. At first he 

 was not a very numerous species, and it was not until 

 1894 that he increased sufficiently to demand that at the 

 end of the season he should be given a Cup of his own 

 to run for. That these claims were legitimate ones no 

 one for a moment will dispute, for although in the 

 days before the Bally gunge chokra was as deeply 

 steeped in guile as he is to-day, the ponies only had 

 to jump the fragments that remained after the horse 

 chase had swept over the fences, in their own Cup they 

 had to take on a stiff course with very " live " obstacles to 

 negotiate. To-day of course it requires far more nerve 

 and jumping powder to face the pony paperchase every 

 week, than it does to ride in the horse chase. And we 

 will proceed to explain why. The advance of education 

 and the Europeanising of the indigenous brother — partic- 

 ularly in the department of sport — have shown the Bally- 

 gunge chokra the possibilities of so-called "fun" to be had 

 out of pony paperchasing — from purely a spectator's point 

 of view. So what does he do but carefully rebuild all the 

 gaps in the fences, which have been made by the hordes, and 

 then go one better and put the height up a bit on his own 

 account ! The result is sometimes absolutely monumental ! 

 " Bijli " of the Bustee, and little pug-nosed Habi bullah of 

 the Durzi's shop, in the mangoe tope, then sit on a bank — and 

 on that part of their anatomy known as their " hunkers " — 

 and enjoy the fun ( ! ). The harvest in squashed topis and 

 the owners thereof, and backsheesh for catching loose ponies, 

 is sufficiently big to merit the attention of the Collector of 

 Income Tax, and we respectfully suggest to him that he 



