... THE PAKSON'S DOG. fA Sporting Reminiscence.! Two old friends of mine owned a farm just on the borders of the Orange Free State. Once or twice a year they deemed it advisable to drive over and see how the farm looked. The said farm boasted a hut or shanty, but no resident stock, not even a tenant. What it had greater reason to boast of was its character asa game preserve. It was situate between ...

... SKETCHES IN THE HUNTING FIELD. A SHARP. SOME men are horn ''sharps. If they are needy and really want the money to obtain which they hover about the border line of dishonesty, they usually find their way before a sitting magistrate or occupy the attention of a jury; the odd thing is that numbers of wealthy men take a pride in performing acts which outspoken persons call by ugly names. Such ...

... ROBERT ETJDE, A STORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLAND. By A. H. Waul. TART THREE. BOBIN HOOD. JSlo matt that comttb in ibis feoob, So ftasl, or bind!, taitji Jlobtit jtjoob, Sjjall tall |>im tarle, lorb, hnigjjt, or squirt, Y)t no sutj) titles bolb btsirt, |(tit gobirt ijoob, plain Jtobin ijoob, Sbat bontst ntoman, stont anb goob. Henry Chcttle (1597*). CHAPTER I. tbcrc bte met faith fifteen ...

... FATHERS OF THE ENGLISH STUD. No. XXVII.-- WEST AUSTRALIAN. VIXERE fortes ante Agamemnona multi-- and so, doubtless, before the days of the West, many good horses made their mark on the Turf, but Mr. Bowes's horse was the first to secure the treble event of Two Thousand, Derby, and Leger. Next to our Dutchman recollections, the name of West Australian is associated with our earliest racing ...

... . By Arthur Law. THE Old Year sat in the chimney corner of his solitary dwelling on the moor, with bent head and crouching form, stretching out his lean fingers to the fire to lose no spark of warmth, for he was old and very feeble. Anon he raised his eyes to the clock over the mantelpiece, counting the movement of the hands as they, all too quickly, approached the hour which was the limit of ...

... UNFAIRLY WON BY MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback, Ac, Commenced, January 29 th. No. 368.) CHAPTER II. Continued Ivy Chandos inherited the sporting quality in no small degree. She could ride a run and jump a five-barred gate with anybody; could play tennis, and billiards; pull a good oar, and drive a tandem or a team with equal ease, and we may add with equal grace, for ...

... . Now, my dear, said Mr. Spookendyke, will you bring the pen and ink, and I'll look over your accounts and straighten 'em for you? I think your idea of keeping an account of the daily expenses is the best thing you overdid. It's business-like, and I want to encourage you in it. Here's the ink, BaidMrs Spoopendyke, growing radiant at the compliment. I had a pen the day before yesterday Let ...

... BY MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback, Ac. CHAPTER XXXIX. THE breakfast-table next morning in St. James's was a very dull and cheerless one indeed. Caroline and George were the only two who sat down to it, and both looked pale and depressed, and partook of the meal in almost total silence. George made but a pretence of eating. He hastily swallowed his coffee, and pushed away ...

... A HEAD BEATING. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER II. PORTER what station is this? Holloway, sir. All right! catch this portmanteau. I will get out here. I had changed my plans. Since I knew nothing about Napoleon Toase, I decided to approach him through Timothy Swenson, with a view to testing his bona- fides. I hoped to effect my object by pulling up thus at Holloway and taking a cab to King's ...

... . THE first race I won? says Wood. It was in a handi cap at Newmarket, a horse called Henry V. There were only two starters, and I beat Fordham; but I expect I was on a good bit the better horse, for he always had the best of boys when it came to a finish if the horses were anything like equal. Let's see, when was it? he continues, knitting his brows to aid memory. About '73, I suppose. ...

... A POPULAR PAYOURITE. By Charles Brookfield. HARRY BLANCO was the last representative of the celebrated Blanco family of pantomimists. Unlike many such com binations, the Blancos were genuinely related to one another. There was the father who played pantaloon, Jack who figured as harlequin, and Harry the popular clown. Harry had been all his life in the business, and up to a year before the ...

... h at another man out of the semblance of human nature. After a day spent in an endeavour to slay partridges he sat by fhe fire and the ghost of one of his ancestors appeared. The Id eentleinan or ex-gentleman contrasted what he had seen that day (he had, it appears, watched proceedings) with what used to happen in his own time. Having lighted his pipe he sat down, and began suddenly with the ...