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getting over a strong country. The bullfincli wliicli 

 would liang up in its brandies the nine-stone man and 

 liis tliorouglibred will open like a door before the deter- 

 mined (jliarge of fifteen stone^ who will also smash a rail 

 like a stick of sealing-wax^ that would turn over nine 

 stone_, to the detriment if not fracture, of every bone in 

 his frame from the neck downwards. But the horses to 

 do all this on are difficult to procure, even at a high 

 figure. One comfort remains to the happy owner of 

 such : they can always, if good for anything, be disposed 

 of, usually at something like a fancy price. 



THE PAEK HACK. 



'^ Show me your hack, and I will tell you what you are,^^ 

 lately wrote a remarkably keen observer of human nature, 

 sporting and metropolitan ; and assuredly a man^s park 

 hack afibrds more often than not an index to his charac- 

 ter. Certain animals seem to the most casual observer 

 suited for certain purposes, and for such purposes only. 

 For example, how out of place would a 16-stone cob look 

 carrying an average subaltern of Life Guards ; and, on 

 the other hand, what diocese could put the slightest faith 

 in a bishop who habitually appeared on a weedy thorough- 

 bred with a habit of lashing out ? " Everything has its 

 place,^^ that nobody can deny; but to follow oufc the 

 instruction of the old saw, and to "put everything in 

 its proper place" is not always easy of accomplishment. 

 If it were, the number of badly mounted equestrians to 

 be seen in a morning's walk in town would diminish 

 considerably. What a hack should be is one thing; 



