GOOD SPORT. 15 9 



Guest gave up the hounds. Miss Guest, too, is an 

 ardent follower of the chase, and is devoted to 

 hounds. She rides very straight, nothing coming 

 amiss to her, and she bids fair to rival her mother's 

 prowess in the field. 



A wonderful instance of nerve and pluck shown 

 by Lady Theodora at the time when she had her 

 leg broken by the swinging-to of a gate, will show 

 that she is not to be ranked amongst fair-weather 

 sportswomen. She was riding a horse named 

 Falconer, a -well-bred animal, very impetuous, and 

 a brilliant fencer. Almost at the end of a good 

 run Lady Theodora was following her pilot through 

 a gateway, when the gate, which had been fixed 

 open, left its fastening and swayed back. She 

 took a pull at her horse to get room, but he saw 

 the gate closing, and swerved so suddenly towards 

 the post that his rider's leg was brought against it 

 with a tremendous crash. As Lady Theodora 

 remarked afterwards, she thought it was the only 

 gate-post in all Dorset that was not rotten. It 

 was firm and strong, however, and as the sufferer 

 said, she felt her leg grince as it came against it. 

 Calling to her pilot to stop, she told him her leg 

 was broken, and said that she would ride home, 

 though the accident had happened some nine miles 

 from Inwood. 



Strangely enough, the horse, which had been 

 ramping and worrying all day, understood that 

 there was something wrong, and never went out of 

 an even walk the whole way home. On the road 



