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danger of steeplechase riding. No one dis- 

 putes the fact that a certain amount of risk 

 to life and limb is involved. I should be 

 the last to do so. But I do not think it is 

 either so bad as it is painted, or so dangerous 

 as it looks. I have had my fair share of 

 accidents, and have broken ribs, collar-bone, 

 and arm, some two or three times each, and 

 once sustained a slis^ht concussion of the 

 brain, but have never been seriously, that is, 

 dangerously, injured in my life except once, 

 when a horse rolled on me. I suspect we are 

 all pretty tough, and really take a lot of kill- 

 ing. If a man goes in for the sport, he must 

 be prepared to take his falls good-humouredly. 

 They will come, even to the best, and the 

 sooner one gets used to the idea the better. 

 Anthony Trollope, one of our few literary 

 sportsmen, once declared that hunting men 

 did not incur so much damage to life and 

 health as they who played whist every after- 

 noon at their club, and ate a heavy dinner 

 afterwards. If we take the number of men 

 who, either hunting or steeplechase-riding, 



