Contents. xiii 



CHAPTER XX. 



Arrival at the Gold Fields — Clubs in South Africa— Johannesburg : its Jews, 

 Englishmen, and Boers— Types of John Bull— A Public Performance 

 under Difficulties— A Lady riding Buckjumpers— Performances at the 

 Johannesburg Circus— Bad to Mount— The Farce of Horse Taming 

 Shows in England— How to make a Good Impression— J. R. Couper, 

 the South African Champion— Wolff Bendoff— 'The Mates" Son— Mr 

 Grey Rattray— Eggs Sixpence a Piece— Dave Moss and the 'Tape'— 

 Johannesburg 'Sharps'— The Ready Reckoner Story— Justice to 'Nig- 

 gers ' in the Transvaal— Vichy, the Winner of the Johannesburg Handicap 

 — English Horses in South Africa, page 259 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Racing in South Africa — Polo— Performances at Pretoria — An Accident — 

 Enthusiasm of the Boers — General Joubert — Breaking-in a Zebra — The 

 Language of the Boers — A Journey by Coach — Prize Fighting in South 

 Africa — Nickless and Kelly — Majuba Hill and Laing's Nek — Harrismith 

 — Hendrik Truter — Maritzburg — Sir Charles Mitchell — Colonel Swaine 

 and the nth Hussars — Horsebreaking at Durban — Farewell to October — 

 The Climate of South Africa — Return to England, - 279 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Homeward Bound — Blazing Weather — ' Professor ' Norton Smith — The Dublin 

 Horse Show— Jumping— Paris — High School Riding — Baucher — M. 

 Auguste Raux — Gustave — Teaching a Horse to Jump — Horse Taming 

 Competition between Sample and Leon, 296 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



The Horsewoman — Practical Lectures on Side-Saddle Riding— The Wards — 

 Fred. Allen — Teaching Ladies to Ride — Riding Masters— Learning from 

 Teaching — Improvements in Side-Saddles — Safety Skirts — The Danger of 

 being ' Dragged '—Saddlers— Walsall— Effect of Cast-iron on the Franco- 

 German War — The Row — Lady Dilke, - - - - - - 318 



