Photo, by M. H. Hayes. 



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 Apiece — Dave Moss and the ' Tape ' — 

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

 gers ' in the Transvaal — Vichy, the Winner of the Johannesburg Handi- 

 cap — English Horses in South Africa. 



WEARY, jolted to pieces, and with a pain in my back 

 which had made me wish to die, I arrived one Sun- 

 day morning at Johannesburg on the coach that had carried 

 the mails and three or four passengers for twenty-four miser- 

 able hours, with only a rest of, say, ten minutes for changing 

 horses about every two hours. After dropping down from 

 the box seat, the first thing I did was to recognise a passing 



