274 In Scarlet and Silk 



oh where is the pleasure of riding one that is 

 not temperate ? 



" In the days of my youth, Father William then said, 

 On pullers I thrust and I rammed, 

 But now I've so frequently pitched on my head. 

 That I'll see the whole lot of them " 



sold off at Tattersall's without reserve rather 

 than ride such brutes. " The wind bloweth 

 where it listeth," and the hard-pulling tear- 

 away goeth where he listeth, and the only 

 " list " we get in the matter is probably one 

 ^'to starboard" as we vainly try to check his 

 mad career. And then ao;ain, think of the 

 brute that will rear at every hand-gate, and 

 also when you have to wait your turn at the 

 only possible place in a fence ! 



But I am losing sight of the main object of the 

 visit this afternoon to Mr. Nemo's excellently 

 conducted stables, and will hark back again. 

 Pulling another bell as he leaves the " office" 

 — this time one with a long iron handle, and 

 which gives out a somewhat dolorous sound 

 down at the far end of the building — you 

 walk across the freshly gravelled yard [Mem. 



