Gentlemen Riders 



according to this increase he was given a certain number of 

 young wives, " The next year, and so on," went on the General, 



"he is similarly rewarded, and " Here the speaker was 



interrupted by the roar of laughter which greeted a remark 

 from the chair, uttered in its occupant's dryest manner, " If ye 

 speak any more like that, General," said Charlie, " we will not 

 have a single shepherd left on the Border." 



A man of whom the Borderland might well be proud, 

 Charlie Cunningham — to give him the name he was known by 

 far and wide — died at his residence at Muirhouseland, Kelso, 

 on the 20th October, 1906, amidst regret as sincere as it was 

 universal. 



He was a J. P. for the county of Roxburghe ; county 

 councillor for the parishes of Morebattle and Hownam ; was 

 an officer of the Border Mounted Rifles, being second in 

 command to Lord Minto (then Lord Melgund), until the regi- 

 ment was disbanded ; and was one of the senior members of 

 the Jedforest Club, which he joined in 1879. In 1873 Mr. 

 Cunningham was married to Margaret, daughter of the late 

 Mr. Joseph Crossley of Halifax, by whom he is survived, and 

 by a large family of sons and daughters. 



Mr. H. M. RIPLEY 



(" Snip ") 



For many years past we have been in the habit of setting a 

 mark against the names of such gentlemen riders we thought 

 would be tolerably certain in the course of their career in the 

 saddle, to ride the winner of the Grand National, at all events 



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