CHAPTER IV 



RIDING 



If it were not for huntlnof and raclnfy, 

 it is fair to presume that, since the 

 immortal bike has come to hold supreme 

 sway, riding on horseback would become 

 obsolete — shown in circuses, perhaps, and 

 looked on as an old-world curiosity and 

 an example of semi-barbarous days in 

 picture-galleries a century or two hence, 

 and nothing more ; but, thank Heaven ! 

 bikes can't jump yet, though the day 

 is possibly not far distant when the 

 scorchers will be seen at the tail of the 

 flying pack, just pressing a button as 

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