Photo, by W. Till. Milton Mowbray. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Accident to Gustave — Ranelagh — Richmond — The Duke of Cambridge — 

 Management of Horse Shows — Apathy of Londoners to Horse Shows — 

 A Libel Action — Berlin — Berliner Tattersall — German Riding and Break- 

 ing—The Thiergarten — Riding in Berlin — The Points of the Horse — Fillis 

 and Germinal — Circus Renz — Melton Mowbray — Lectures — Rugby — 

 Yorkshire — Leicestershire — End. 



WE had hoped to have Gustave ready for the jumping 

 competitions at the Agricultural Hall ; but about a 

 month before that event came off, when practising him over a 

 broad water jump, he overreached badly on account of the land- 

 ing side being so soft from the infiltration of water, that he could 

 not get his forefeet quick enough out of the sticky ground to 

 avoid an accident. I freely admit that this was due entirely 

 to my carelessness ; for no one knew better than I did, that 



