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THE PAINTER'S HORSE. 



and a fall would be the inevitable result. The " tail-piece," 

 on this page, gives a correct and far more artistic rendering 

 of the action at this moment. A method of recent date is to 

 give the animal, just before landing, the appearance of being 

 afraid to face his bit {see p. 138). Consequently, although 

 the position may be true, it will look constrained and awk- 

 ward to the eye of a 'cross country expert, which is a role 

 that such artists are evidently unqualified to assume. I need 

 hardly say that the more an artist knows, the better will he 

 paint. I venture to think that the requirements of truth and 

 artistic feeling are fairly well fulfilled in Plate 69, which I 

 took at the Dublin Horse Show in 1892, and for permission 

 to do which I have to thank the Committee of the Royal 

 Dublin Society. 



(^Photograph by M. H. Hayes.') 



The Water Jump at Sandowx Park. 



