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jump timber splendidly often enough at 

 shows, but they fail at water, and your 

 common horse in the hunting field who 

 makes a brilliant start soon wants his 

 fences " bringing to him " when they 

 run. 



I wanted to put one of my little girls 

 up show-jumping this season, as they go 

 quite as well as Frank to hounds, but 

 my wife says she bosses the girls, and 

 v/ouldn't let me — says I shall be making 

 circus-riders of them, and all sorts of 

 funny things, so I had to give in, as 

 good husbands always do. I thought 

 the judges would be sure to hang a bit 

 to a young girl with her hair down her 

 back. They do hang to the ladies a 

 bit, these judges do, if they get half a 

 chance ; and sometimes, when I feel badly 

 treated, I say if we had one lady judge 

 amongst the three, the *'mere male" 



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