Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport

There are not many things much more calculated to annoy, than a horse who always "_thinks_," the stupid beast who _will_ stop at every shop passing through his own village on a...

On all that concerns touring, it is important to dwell, for it is in travelling on the road that women must find chief use for their cycles, and this they have had the common se...

I purpose, therefore, to put a few notes together, in which I shall endeavour to answer some of the questions proposed to me, and to relate such passages of my experience as may...

There are so many different sorts of rifles turned out by the various gunmakers, that it would be difficult to say which kind is the best. I have not had a large experience, but...

Meanwhile, four rabbits have taken advantage of your soliloquy to make good their escape. You fire a snap-shot at one as he bobs into the fence. "Mark over," and a pheasant whir...

In driving a team, the first thing to be learnt is the art of "catching" a four-in-hand whip. It certainly _looks_ easy enough, and many a time have I watched my father, with on...

I do not think women are good judges of pace, and although they are seldom afraid of jumping, they hardly ever gallop. Men will say it is because they sit on one side and have n...

Most lovers of horseflesh, seizing their sun-hats from the peg, sally out into the "compound" (a kind of grass enclosure with a few mango or tamarisk trees planted in the middle...

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A low Hist! from the leader of the chase--he is the owner of the station--mounted on a thorough-bred bay, the hounds stand a second with pricked up ears, and their heads high in...

But let us turn to the farmer, who with his farmyard gate in his hand, is anxiously watching some young stock crowding against his valuable ewes in an adjoining field, while a l...

'In these two large and beautifully-printed volumes we have a great amount of the century's best gossip.... The two volumes are, in fact, a kind of encyclopædia of gossip about...