Frozen Out still. 2 1 3 



of a horse going at speed, landing on his feet with- 

 out using his hands, is a sight to see, an act of 

 horsemanship such as I have never seen attempted 

 before. 



After this I was introduced to Miss Ida Myers, who, 

 under the tutelage of her clever mother, will doubt- 

 less attain the same celebrity as she has done whilst 

 playing her difficult and dangerous parts in this 

 great show. The Roman Chariot Race pleased me 

 greatly, ending in a piece of excitement that added 

 piquancy to the entertainment, for one of the fair 

 charioteers, in her frantic endeavours to be first at 

 the winning-post, upset the apple cart, falling close 

 to the wheels of the following chariot, which had 

 fortunately given her a wide berth. With little 

 delay they were up and at it again without further 

 nn'shap. Goldsmith says, " The sports of children 

 satisfy the child," and it would be a very unreason- 

 able child, indeed, who went away from this rich 

 banquet of sports and pastimes unsatisfied, after 

 seeing the lions, elephants, camels, and the crowning 

 effort of the coachman who tooled his forty in hand, 

 followed by others driving twenty in hand, which they 

 guided in a wonderful manner. In this part of the 

 performance not less than two hundred horses and 

 ponies appeared at one time in this mammoth circus. 

 P.S. — My excellent friend, Mr. Durrant, of Tun- 

 bridge Wells, gives me an account of the proceedings 

 of the clever huntsman, George Bollen, and the West 

 Kent Hounds, which is well worthy of note. Imagine 

 my astonishment, he says, on Monday last, at seeing 

 the hounds, which had travelled all the way from the 

 kennels at Wrotham, by rail and road, in order to 



