RIDING I I I 



to get wide of the rest of the field, with 

 a regular yawner ahead and no option 

 but to have a flutter. 



After a cursory glance from ■ both, 

 " Pluck " rams his hat tight, and with a 

 ^' Here o^oes the last of the Cardiofans" 

 sort of air, flails his horse at it at a 

 tremendous pace (right ofl" his legs, in 

 fact), and, just failing to reach the far 

 bank, takes an imperial cropper the other 

 side. " Nerve," who had simultaneously 

 taken his own line, gliding up to another 

 part of the fence, and holding his gee 

 well together for a final effort, and, with 

 just one reminder as he rose to the 

 occasion, lands by the skin of his teeth, 

 but with nothing to spare. 



There are hundreds, and even thou- 

 sands of men who, having the first three 

 of my qualifications in a more or less 

 degree, are almost utterly devoid of 



