... LADIES ON HORSEBACK. MAENINO, PAEK-EIDING, ANn HUNTING, WITH HINTS UPON COSTUME, AND NUMEEOUS ANECDOTES. By Hes. Poweb O'Donoghue Authoress of The Knave of Clubs, Horses and Horsemen, Grandfather's Hunter, One in Ten Thousand, Spring Leaves, Thoughts on the Talmud, c., e. Begun in No. 350, October 2.) Paet III. Continued I said in the beginning of these columns that I should offer ...

... . By Alfred E. T. Watson. Author of Sketches in the Hunting Field Racecourse and Covert Side &c. CHAPTER I. IF it be not absolutely correct to say that there are black sheep in every fold, it is a fact that in very few folds are the sheep all of immaculate whiteness. Some, at least, are likely to be tinted. The division lines between cunning and dis honesty are, in fact, often much narrower ...

... . By Mes. Powee O'Donoqhue. WELL, I'm blest! If that isn't a donkey's head I see there, sticking up over the wall, just below the slope. I don't like donkeys, but I pity them. Yes, I pity them. I am a horse myself, and can afford to indulge in a feeling of kindly sympathy towards all inferior animals. Donkeys get whacks All day on their backs That's rhyme, I think. I wonder is it poetry. I ...

... . JULY 18TH was a memorable day for the inhabitants of the little village of K-- in co. Mayo when a team of cricketer (save the mark!) came over from the neighbouring village of D-- to contest with them for the honours of cricket. None of those who were present on that occasion could easily forget it; and some, indeed, bear evidence of its having been forcibly, not to say painfully, impressed ...

... DRAMA. HAYMARKET. Hadjezda is now preceded at the Haymarket by that rarity, a new farce. This farce, which is called Boom 70, is by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, who has chosen an old-fashioned subject, and has treated it in a pleasant, simple-minded, wholesome way. He takes for his hero ontf Littletop, a lively gentleman who has played an awlcwaid practical joke upon a stranger, and suddenly ...

... THE SPORTS OP LAST CENTURY. THE extreme activity in the athletic world at present disposes us to forget the quite recent date at which open-air sports be came fashionable. Thus, when we were at Oxford, thirty-two years ago, there was no football; cricket was not played in any thing like so scientific a manner as it is at present, nor did half the men in a college care to go near their cricket ...

... . By W. H. Pollock. IT was the kind of stifling afternoon in autumn when the sun's heat is so languid that people belated in, or passing through, London cannot but feel languid too. A small assembly of such people was scattered about the smoking- room of a club, some drinking (not punch, but lemon-squash, or other cooling drinks), some drinking tea, and by their faces you might see at least ...

... A YACHTING AND SHOOTING TRIP TO ALBANIA. -IX. By Bagatelle [A. G. Ear/ot.) TOWARDS the afternoon it cleared up, and with a nice sailing breeze we started, having a quick passage till we got abreast of the gulf of Arta, where it blew so hard I had to heave to. About 3 a.m. it moderated a bit, and we let draw, though it was still blowing a whole gale. At 7 a.m. we passed a large steamer ...

... SOME PLEASANT PISHING QUARTERS. No. III.-- LLANTHONY ABBEY. [Concluded.) To illustrate this, I may mention that I have stayed in the abbey with other anglers who knew every bit of the river and all its peculiarities, and for several days we barely kept the break fast and dinner tables supplied with trout for home consumption, when a sudden change of weather altered the whole character of our ...

... Bv Bagatelle [A. G. Ingot.) III. THE following morning the well-known sound of bugle-calls woke us early. Perhaps the plural us is stretching a point, for I don't believe a broadside would have had any effect on J--; he had declared, before turning in the previous night, that he had been worn perfectly smooth, like a pebble, from rolling about, and that he would not show a leg till 10 A ...

... SOME RARE BRITISII ANIMALS. III.-- TIIE POLECAT Continued THE vermin of the preserve have, as a rule, a more or less fœtid odour attaching to them, but it is in the polecat-- Mustela fœtida, as the scientists have dubbed it-- that this objectionable peculiarity is most strongly developed. No member of the weasel-tribe, as we know them, can be esteemed particularly savoury, although many rural ...

... . BY MRS. G. W. GODFREY. Author of My Queen Unspotted from the World c. RUNNING, running along the sun-stricken dusty high road; running, running with little tender feet, in slender sandalled shoes pierced with cruel stones; with little bare, burning head, and small shapely tired limbs clad in ragged tawdry clothes, she knows not where-- running out of the miseries she knows, into those that ...