A June Festivity 



coaching, hunting and racing scenes by Aiken 

 and Herring. Quaint pictures some of them, 

 but full of life, all the same, and serving to pass 

 a brief interval before the more serious business 

 of the day claims attention. Mr Powell on Red 

 Deer clearing an almost impossible ravine into 

 which his green jacketed adversary has incon- 

 tinently jumped, is always subject of much dis- 

 cussion, and Captain Becher on Vivian, swim- 

 ming what is apparently a navigable river, 

 brings a lot of comparisons with the steeplechase 

 courses of these degenerate days, in which the 

 latter come off second best. A favourite is Dan 

 Seffert on Grimaldi, jumping a broken gate, 

 and an opponent who is flattened out on the 

 " hard high road." 



But perhaps the picture which pleases best 

 of all is Jim Mason on Lottery winning at Liver- 

 pool. For Lottery may be termed the Eclipse 

 of steeplechasing. Everyone has heard of him, 

 and of his mighty performances. And there he 

 is, jumping an entirely unjumpable wall, only 

 less formidable than that which faced the Knight 



of Altenahr, when he " emptied a cup of the red 



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