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"he doesn't do it again). It is bad enouoh rushing in amonjjj men at a 

 ifence, or in a close place, but when ladies .^et jostled, it is high time to 

 'interfere. We have an uncommon big follo»ving on the pucka this 

 season, and I hope all onlookers, as well as riders will send their ten 

 rupees to Mr. Latham, instead of putting that hard working promoter of 

 sport to the trouble of collecting it piece-meal. When gentlemen 

 undertake the usually thankless office of Honorary Secretary to anything 

 at all, it is very hard if those for whom the amusement is provided, do 

 ■not make things as easy for them as possible. J^erb. Sap. 



The third meet of the season took place yesterday morning, the 

 meet being at Rosedale, on the Gurriah Hat Road at 7 a.m. The 

 morning was fortunately cold and clear, and the following unusually 

 large, owing in a great measure to the accession of the (iovernment 

 House party, but in the gallery there was a most decided falling-off, 

 -and it is readily accounted for by the fact that the line of country 

 selected on the last occasion rendered seeing anything at all, on wheels, 

 an utter impossibility, and it very likely leaked out that the course 

 yesterday was of a like, or, from a macadamizer's point of view, still more 

 heinous nature. Of course, the first claim to consideration vests in the 

 followers of the paper, and, as I have already said, it is difficult until 

 'later to get a course at all, so the skirters and roadsters must, I suppose, 

 wait for their turn later on. The course was a particularly tortuous one, 

 the first part consisting of a game of follow-my-leader down a lane where 

 •only one horse could find foothold at a time, which gave those first away 

 a great advantage over their fellows ; then suddenly diverging at rihgt 

 angles, the first flight must have rudely disturbed the matutinal medita- 

 'tions of a rural Bengalee, whose house, by the way, the "Bounding 

 Jockey" nearly let day-light into, as his horse had a kind of an idea he 

 was intended to have it somehow. Some walls, a drop, more lanes and 

 turnings and the brickfields are in view: again into the jungle ; this 

 time hurdles and ornamental palm-leaf transparencies with alternate 

 "" ponk " and " puck-dandee, " constitute the country to be crossed, the 

 'finish taking place at the foot of a picturesque looking knoll, on which 

 a crowd of our Aryan brethren formed a shivering, if not enthusiastic, 

 gallery. 



The field got away v;ith commendable punctuality, a group of the 

 'best-mounted, comprising the invincible " Bounding Jockey," Dr. Durrun; 

 Toller on Temperance, Mr. Lowlander on " Lawrence," Lord William 

 on a cobby brown that many will recollect as a good performer in other 

 hands last year. Archer on "Gipsy" and" Mr. Cochin China ' on a 

 •handsome bay, at once establishing a gap between themselves and the 

 iruck, which despite their repeatedly overrunning the paper, the 



