*284 LADIES ON HOESEBACK. 



iihe fine old sportsman, Allen McDonogh, 

 I need wonder no longer at her having 

 become the very brilliant horsewoman which 

 undoubtedly she is. A finer or more grace- 

 ful horseman than her teacher was, has 

 never lived. Since growing years and in- 

 creasing weight prevented him from riding 

 his own horses he has brought out very 

 many crack gentlemen riders within the past 

 twenty years, some of them quite shining 

 hghts. Amongst some may be enumerated 

 his great friend, Captain Tempest, 11th Hus- 

 sars ; Captain Prichard Eayner, 5th Dragoon 

 •Guards ; Mr. Laurence, 4th Hussars ; Captain, 

 now Major, Hutton, 1st Eoyal Dragoons; 

 Captain Brown, of the Eoyal Horse Artillery, 

 who unfortunately was killed a few years since 

 crossing the railway returning from a steeple- 

 chase meeting held near London ; Captain 

 Eicardo, 15th Hussars; Lieutenant-Colonel 

 McCalmont, 7th Hussars ; Captain Soames, 

 4th Hussars ; and the ever-to-be-regretted 

 Captain the Hon. Greville Nugent ; and last, 

 but by no means least, Mr. Thomas Beasley, 

 besides many others, all these gentlemen, 



