AT HOME IN ENGLAND 



plenty of new friends and was learning more of 

 England ; in fact I was getting thoroughly at home 

 in the country I knew so well afterwards, and on the 

 continent in which I was to eventually make my 

 home. There was of course any number of Americans 

 over to follow me and others, and I could not blame 

 them if occasionally they were a little bit too patriotic, 

 for the luck of the American riders seemed to be in 

 the ascendant. I had plenty of invitations to ride, 

 and of course my friends helped me considerably in 

 getting me mounts. Time and again I would not 

 know what I was to be up on during the following 

 week but at the end I always found I had added many 

 notches to my score, and as the figures got better and 

 better so was extra confidence given to me and to 

 those who employed me. As the sun got warmer too, 

 I began to feel that fitness which the trying wind of 

 the spring had dried up. 



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