44 SPORT. 



With all this there is throuQrhout these varied 

 classes of riders, although occasional bickerings may 

 arise, a general tone of good humour and tolerance 

 rarely to be found in other congregations of mankind. 

 Landlords and tenant farmers — whose natural re- 

 lation to each other has recently been described by 

 political agitators (with their usual accuracy) as one 

 of mutual coldness, distrust, and antagonism — here 

 meet with smiling countenances and jovial greetings, 

 and the only question of '' tenant right " here is the 

 right of the tenant to ride over his landlord, or of 

 the landlord to take a similar liberty with his tenant. 

 Rivals in business, opponents in politics, debtors 

 and creditors — all by common consent seem to wipe 

 off old scores, and, for the day at least, to be at peace 

 and charity with their neighbours. 



One man only may perhaps be sometimes excluded 

 from the benefits arising out of this approximation 

 to the millennium, and he, to whom I have not yet 

 alluded, is the most important of all — the master. 

 No position, except perhaps a member of Par- 



