6o pien M)o f^imt, autl tlutr ^PtfuHan'tir^. 



re-mount (if his horse has not been let go) in medi- 

 tative solitude. This distinguished company can 

 generally boast of a horsebreaker, taking the change 

 out of some grass-fed three-year-old entrusted to 

 his care (?) — numerous fat men on ponies, and other 

 indifferently mounted ones ; but it is not without 

 shame that I must also chronicle as being b}^ no 

 means unfrequently in their midst, sundry well- 

 mounted and pink-coated duffers, who, having got a 

 good start, have hy /ten kiJtg ^md craning so completely 

 resigned such position as they should have held, as to 

 have been literally overtaken by our aforesaid friends. 

 B}^ the same, however, these exquisites are held in 

 great reverence, and, between the obstacles, the 

 command of the detachment is usually taken over 

 by one or another of them. This prominent position, 

 however, they will unselfishly resign as they near the 

 headland furrow, and allow one of their less osten- 

 tatious followers to then assume the leadership, and 

 subsequently demohsh the fence to be crossed as 

 may be required, and as has been described. Such 

 swells as these are remarkable for hollaing at and 

 jagging the mouths of their (for them) too ambitious 

 steeds, for speaking impatiently, to say the least of 

 it, to the kind-hearted one who is endeavouring, dis- 

 mounted, to reduce a gap two feet high to negotiable 

 dimensions, and so forth. 



