VI.— A FEW NOTABLE MOUNTS 



There are some rides which provide us with 

 a budget of agreeable reminiscences, even if 

 we do not see the fox killed, or carry home 

 a pad triumphantly, just as there are other 

 rides which leave us with a sense of futility — 

 our horse may have "turned it up" when the 

 pinch came — if not with the consciousness of 

 a damaged person. 



A trip to Scarborough pleased me greatly in 

 the year 1884. My father sent me thither 

 with a two-year-old called " Stonefall," which 

 he trained for Sir Simon Lockhart. I had sole 

 charge of the youngster, travelled in the same 

 box with him, " dressed " him, looked after him 

 generally, as if he had been a priceless work of 

 art, and rode him in his race. I felt like Napoleon 

 at 5 st. 7 lb. with a spear in each hand. 



My worthy sire encouraged us to do all the 

 hard work ourselves. " I wish you," he said, 

 " to learn the business thoroughly and practically 



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