RIDING lOI 



mind your best girl on the stand or the 

 coach. Nurse and humour your horse 

 so that he may go smoothly and make 

 his best show when the judges' eyes are 

 on him. How tedious it sometimes be- 

 comes when judges of hunters ride each 

 selected horse two or three times round 

 the ring ! Certainly they should just 

 get up, because no man can properly 

 judge shoulders, balance, and ** feel '* 

 without; but if they can't tell sufficient 

 for the purpose with one ride round, 

 they are unfitted for their post, and 

 make the whole thing a bore to the 

 occupants of the stand and onlookers 

 generally. 



I remember jolly old Sir John Astley 

 having a flutter at the water at the 

 Lincoln County Show once, with a cigar 

 a foot long in his mouth, and a parasol 

 for a whip. Splash he went in the 



