Frost- Bound still. 1 9 5 



I should choose, were I one of the jeunesse doree, to 

 dash up to the door of the object of my adoration, 

 when desh'ous of canning her approval. I have 

 always found, or rather should say, have been told, 

 that nothing so much advances the prospects of a 

 suitor as the possession of a well-appointed turn-out. 

 The man who goes on foot " to tell his tale of love," 

 simply isn't in it. Then I saw a weight-carrying 

 cob, described as able to jump anything in reason, 

 good looking, with muscular limbs, imiltum in 2^arvo, 

 in fact ; by the way, I offer it as a suggestion, that 

 he could not be more fitly named, being a great horse 

 in a small compass. 



However, I must not give the details of every 

 good-looking horse I saw, or I shall trespass too 

 far upon the available space in Bell's Life, and be 

 rated as a babbler, therefore I will merely say that 

 the horses at Cricklewood are a remarkably level 

 lot, not too highly priced by any means, but showing 

 an amount of quality sufficient to stamp those who 

 have the management of the stud as men of judg- 

 ment and ability. 



Messrs. Newman and Lansley had, long before they 

 joined the Andover Company, earned the reputation 

 of clever and straightforward men of business, and 

 I think the shareholders in the venture may con- 

 gratulate themselves on having secured the services 

 of such able and well-qualified men. The very 

 essence of success in such a difficult and hazardous 

 trade as horse-dealing is good management, and the 

 most careless observer could not fail to see evident 

 traces of it throughout the whole of the arrange- 

 ments at Cricklewood. 



