V.— SOME RIDES ABROAD 



My foreign experiences in the saddle have been 

 sufficiently picturesque and diversified. I have 

 ridden in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, 

 Holland, and Ireland, having been successful in 

 all those countries. It is a fact, too, that I have 

 " sampled the soil " in each — that is, horses have 

 fallen with me there, or on me, or all over me, 

 according to the luck of the moment. Escapes 

 by the skin of my teeth have been numerous. 

 Yet, happily, my Continental adventures do not 

 include any broken limbs. " Tosses " of infinite 

 variety there have been certainly, together with 

 one or two " good shakings " — not a " good 

 thing " for any man who is not in hard condition 

 — but I have always been able to face the music, 

 so to say, when it became a question of weighing 

 out for the next race. The weighing in, after a 

 nice win, is not less agreeable. 



As for Ireland, where I have done fairly well 



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