2 74 in Scarlet and Silk 



oil where is the pleasure of riding one that is 

 not temperate ? 



" In the days of my youth, Father William then said, 

 On pullers I thrust and I rammed. 

 But now I've so frequently pitched on my head, 

 That I'll see the whole lot of them " 



sold off at Tattersall's without reserve rather 

 than ride such brutes. " The wind bloweth 

 where it listeth," and the hard-pulling tear- 

 away goeth where lie listeth, and the only 

 " list " we get in the matter is probaljly one 

 "to starboard" as we vainly try to check his 

 mad career. And then again, think of the 

 brute that will rear at every hand-gate, and 

 also when you have to wait your turn at the 

 only possible place in a fence ! 



But I am losing sight of the main object of the 

 visit this afternoon to Mr. Nemo's excellently 

 conducted stables, and will hark back again. 

 Pulling another bell as he leaves the "office" 

 — this time one with a long iron handle, and 

 which gives out a somewhat dolorous sound 

 down at the far end of the building — you 

 walk across the freshly gravelled yard {Mem. 



