1 6 Tom and Penelope. 



gestive. One never sees the photograph of a 

 horse clearing an obstacle in which the rider's 

 form is as perfect as it is apt to be depicted in en- 

 gravings or paintings. And in some of the within 

 illustrations of road gaits there is apparent a care- 

 lessness in both seat and reins which would 

 scarcely do in the accomplishment of the high 

 airs of the manage, but into which a rider is some- 

 times apt unconsciously to lapse. No one is prob- 

 ably better aware of what is good and bad alike 

 in these plates than the author himself. He ap- 

 preciates " form " at its exact value, but is con- 

 strained to believe that the true article comes 

 from sources far removed from, and of vastly 

 more solid worth than the pigskin which covers 

 a rider's saddle, or the shears which bang his 

 horse's tail. The searching power of photogra- 

 phy, however, is no respecter of form or person. 



A word of thanks should not be omitted to 

 Mr. Coolidge, whose excellent judgment and keen 

 eye in taking these pictures, without other appa- 

 ratus than his lens, is well shown by the result, 

 nor to the Lewis Engraving Company for their 

 careful reproductions from material by no means 

 perfect. 



Perhaps it should be said that Master Tom and 

 Penelope, who figure in these pages, are as really 

 in the flesh as Patroclus, and by no means mere 

 fictions of the imagination. 



