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... 'mm/smut I DO not remember the opening of the flat-racing season to have been antici pated with keener zest than is no w shown on all sides, and it will, indeed, be a relief to get rid of the comparative apathy which has prevailed during the last few weeks at jumping celebrations, with the single exception of the recent Grand Military Pestival. It can safely be asserted that the prospects of ...

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... No. 1,332.-- Vol. li. [rr?:5] SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1899. PTVS?^01S ...

... A DAY'S HUNTING-- WITH APOLOGIES TO THE BAPvD. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK. IS it likely that any manager not being an actor-manager would have produced The Man in the Iron Mask, and, not being Mr. Norman Forbes himself, would have asked that gentleman to take the chief part in the production? I cannot answer these questions definitely, but I know what I think the answer ought to be. In the meantime I will allow myself ...

... . THERE are, as is well known, many men in the hunting field who ride to sell, and, although they may not ride exceedingly well, they are often splendid salesmen. They are especially gifted in the art of opening their mouth, to use a technical term, when a man with plenty of money appears on the scene, wanting to buy a horse. When they ask half as much again as they expect to get for a ...

... . WHEN March comes in with an adder's head, it goes out with a peacock's tail, is a saying one often hears repeated in the North. It has been giving us both by short turns this past ten days-- summer heat following on chilling east winds, to give way again to snow showers. Anglers have been complaining in most quarters, but gamekeepers have been glad, for they have succeeded in getting a ...

... THE LATE LIEUT. -COMMANDER VIVIAN CHAMPION be CRESPIGNY. R.N. WHAT a number of good men and true have gone to swell the lamentably long list of those who have lost their lives at polo, since that fascinating game was first introduced into the British Services some thirty years ago. That it is the best of all games cannot be denied, nor that it is, at the same time, the most dangerous, when ...

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