RIDING RECOLLECTIONS 



he was, had, as we know, a cork leg, and its 

 oscillation no doubt interfered with those niceties 

 of horsemanship In which he delighted. Never- 

 theless at the twentieth trial he succeeded, and a 

 large crowd, collected to watch him, seemed glad 

 of an opportunity to give their Waterloo hero a 

 hearty cheer as he rode away. 



Perhaps the finest pair of hands to be seen 

 amongst the frequenters of the Park in the 

 present day belong to Mr. Mackenzie Greaves, 

 a retired cavalry officer of our own service, who, 

 passionately fond of hunting and everything 

 connected with horses, has lately turned his 

 attention to the subtleties of the haute dcole, 

 nowhere better understood, by a select few, than 

 in Paris, where he usually resides. To watch 

 this gentleman on a horse he has broken in 

 himself, gliding through the crowd, as if by mere 

 volition, with the smoothness, ease, and rapidity 

 of a fish arrowing up a stream, makes one quite 

 understand how the myth of the Centaur 

 originated in the sculpture and poetry of 

 Greece. 



In common with General Laurenson, whose 

 name I have already mentioned as just such 

 another proficient, his system is very similar to 

 that of Monsieur Baucher, one of the few lovers 

 of the animal either in France or England, who 

 have so studied its character as to reduce equine 



