150 " BE WISE IN TIME." 



toaclics liim how to husbiind it, so as to keep the most 

 he can to bring him home again : but he must have a 

 head to think and hands to do it ; and as for heels^ he 

 will want a little of them too ; but, if an artist, lie 

 will never use them improperly or when he can do 

 without them. 



I saw some very proper remarks made lately in a 

 Sporting Journal on the unfairness of the ground 

 marked out for a steeple-chase. Now, I know many 

 of our first-rate riders : I Avish them well ; and, in proof 

 of this, tell them that if they break all their necks it 

 serves them right. These are all valuable men to the 

 sporting world ; many of them valuable members of 

 society : What the d — 1 business have they to go risk- 

 ing their necks over improper and unfair courses to 

 please the gaping multitude, or in obedience to the 

 washes of men who would not themselves ride over 

 half the course for all the land it covered ? If the 

 first-rate riders were all to join and object to unfair 

 courses, they would show their good sense, and the 

 thing would be better arranged. Ordinary hunting 

 fences are dangerous enough at the pace they are 

 forced to ride at them ; but to ask men to ride at 

 fences made dangerous purposely, and that at a part 

 of the race when horses are beat, is most unfair, un- 

 sportsmanlike, selfish, and cruel. If they fancy that 

 an objection on their parts would lay them open to a 

 charge of fear, I w^ould ask, would any man doubt 

 the courage of such men as the Marquis of Anglesey, 

 Lord Ponsonby, or Colonel Wyndham, should either 

 or all of these decline a duel with muskets at six 

 paces ? Men of their established courage might re- 

 fuse to face a pop-gun if they chose : so might our 

 known steeple-chase riders refuse to break their bones 



