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EXPERIENCES OF SPORT. 



" Williams, I shall ride Jack in the Box to- 

 day," his invaluable servant would .reply, 



" Jack in the Box, my Lord, not if I knows 

 it ; he's tucked up and coughing like blazes, and 

 I railly thinks he is got the hinfluenza." 



It mattered not what horse my friend 

 wanted, there was always something wrong 

 with that particular horse, and unfit to 

 ride. 



At my suggestion he always named two or 

 three he would ride, though in reality he did 

 not want them, by this means he always got 

 the horses he fancied. 



After being bullied by this fellow for two or 

 three years, he at last plucked up courage and 

 gave him his conge". 



I am sorry to see since I commenced this 

 book, that with real sportsmen and men who 

 know what dogs are, dog-shows are coming 

 into general disfavour, and the reason is simply 

 this, that men are chosen to adjudicate who are 

 no sportsmen, and who know nothing whatever 

 of the matter. I could name some, but polite- 

 ness forbids my doing so, who have never shot 

 a head of game, and others who have had but 



