ST. MERIADOC, BY MARCOVlL SACRISTINK Photograph by W. A. Rouch

The Badminton Magazine

A LOOK ROUND

BY THE EDITOR

THE From a sporting point 4th of June. Before long, however, the TIIREE-YEAR-OLDS of view March is three-year-olds will at any rate have chiefly notable for the become subjects of discussion. This fact that flat racing begins, indeed before issue bears date April, and on the 30th of this number of the magazine is in the the month the Two Thousand Guineas hands of most readers the season will be contested, so that we are nearly under Jockey Club rules will have begun. approaching matters of importance. Very few years ago for months prior Probably Mr. Bower Ismay’s Craganour to the start we were accustomed to would have been made favourite for the long lists of quotations on the Derby Derby but that a doubt as to his ability and various other events. Up to the to stay seems to prevail, though it can time of writing, so far as I have seen, no only be based upon the sheerest guess single horse has been backed for the work. One hears, nevertheless, expres­ great race to be run at Epsom on the sions of preference for Mr. Hulton’s

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Shogun and Mr. Raphael’s Louvois console himself not long since by recalling notwithstanding that Craganour was that classic races have been won by last year officially rated 7 lb. better than horses who “ made a noise.” Portraits Mr. Hulton’s son of Santoi and Kendal of the most prominent of the present Belle; 11 lb. better than the brother to three-year-olds have been published in Louviers, who so narrowly missed victory these pages, some of them more than in Minoru’s year. Furthermore I recollect once. Mr. A. F. Basset’s St. Meriadoc Craganour’s trainer, William Robinson, and Mr. J. B. Joel’s Golden Sun were not stating his impression that Craganour included and are to be found in the

GOLDEN SUN, BY SUNDRIDGE GOLDEN LASSIE Photograph by W . A. Rouch was better than his assessment in present issue. The son of Sundridge and the Free Handicap for Two-year-olds Golden Lassie came a stone below top suggested. weight in the Free Handicap last autumn. None of the three-year-old colts seems St. Meriadoc 9 lb. lower still, but this to have come on in appearance more than son of Marcovil and Sacristine is a shapely Lord Rosebery’s Sanquhar. There is no animal whose portrait seems well worth doubt as to his wind being defective, giving. Opinions as to what will win the however. No secret is made of the classic races can be of little value at this unfortunate fact ; but Percy Peck who time of the year, before the capacity of has charge of him was endeavouring to the competitors has been tested. I am, A LOOK ROUND

A PARADE AT KEMPTON

BAY COLT BY CICERO PINDI Photographs by W. A . Rouch X 2 352 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE of course, writing some time prior to the The great majority of yearlings for whom Easter Monday meeting at Kempton larger sums are given by a mysterious Park at which Mr. H. E. Beddington’s dispensation of Fortune turn out badly. Rock Flint will probably appear, at least The son of Cicero and Pindi, bred by Sir his owner was good enough to write to John Robinson, was knocked down to me from the south of France and mention Mr. Hubert Hartigan for 1,150 guineas. that the colt was likely to start for the It is believed that the Derby winner of Easter Stakes. The two towards whom 1905 will do better than he has done my fancy chiefly leans are, however, hitherto, that is to say that his offspring Shogun and Louvois, though as already will earn a higher reputation for his admitted the doubt about Craganour sireship in the future than they have done has no reasonable foundation, for the in the past, though the couple of races won Desmonds certainly stay well enough last season by his daughter Prue were

ROUND THE BEND AT KEMPTON Photograph by W. A. Rouch as a rule, even if their tempers sometimes worth £5,492. The daughter of Radium prevent them from doing their best ; and Lady Sevington, also bred at the and Craganour’s disposition is said to Worksop Manor Stud, made 1,750 guineas. be placid. There are said to be several young Radiums of high promise. Last year SOME It may or may not be saw the first of his young ones, the TWO-YEAR-OLDS that the two-year-olds leader of whom, Polonium, secured the here represented will Brocklesby Stakes, doing nothing, how­ make names for themselves. Their ever, in the five races in which he shapeliness says not a little for them ; afterwards started. The brown daughter that they should all have made high of St. Frusquin and Lady Linton went prices is a circumstance which some to Lord Michelham for 3,500 guineas, pessimists would be disposed to say was coming from Sir Tatton Sykes’s famous rather against them than otherwise. Sledmere stud. The price seems high, A LOOK ROUND 353 but what is thought of the St. Frusquins that her then stable companion Spear­ is proved by the average of 1,750 guineas mint did duty at Epsom, and most paid for the seven who were put up to effectually replaced her by beating one auction last year. The daughter of of the best fields that have run for the William the Third and Falling Star, bred Derby for many years past. at Langton Hall, was cheaper — 1,550 Other photographs chosen for the guineas. There is something so particu­ present number dealing with the start larly attractive about her that 1 picked of the season show a parade at Kempton her for one of these illustrations. The with a view of the stands, and a field of fifth is the bay son of Spearmint and horses rounding the bend. When the Flair, bred by Mr. F. C. Stern and put course was first laid out this turn was

CHESTNUT FILLY BY RADIUM LADY SEVINGTON

Photograph by W. A. Rouch up at the Newmarket July where he was more abrupt than it is at present, and bought in for 3,700 guineas. There is doubtless affected the results of not a few no denying that some of the Spearmints races ; for if horses were not well placed have not the best of legs. This colt looks here they were liable to be bumped and sufficiently well furnished in that respect, shut in. Kempton has always been and a sort of interest attaches to him admirably managed. When experience through his parents. Flair carried off proved that the bend was defective, steps the One Thousand Guineas of 1906, and were taken to improve it. The other two there were many sound judges who pictures are reminiscences of Lincoln, fancied her greatly for the Derby. The where for so many years past the season Newmarket classic was, however, her has opened. Liverpool was rather ex­ only appearance as a three-year-old. She haustively illustrated last month, and I could not be trained subsequently, so have not therefore returned to it. 354 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE steeplechasing The steeplechase sea­ occasion at Liverpool carrying 12st. 71b. son, on the eve of There are few horses without some weak finishing, has been considerably better point, and Jerry M.’s wind was the cause than the critics who for some reason of his retirement after he had for some or other have a tendency to disparage time given rise to much anxiety. Some the sport will be willing to admit. The authorities are disinclined to believe that disappearance of Sir Charles Assheton- this ailment is hereditary. The horse’s Smith’s Jerry M. was a loss the serious­ four-year-old brother, John Jorrocks, is, ness of which could scarcely be over­ however, under grave suspicion, to say estimated. To compare the horses of the least of it, though otherwise he seems one period with their predecessors over to have much of the merit of his famous

THE PADDOCK AT LINCOLN Photograph by W. A. Rouch a long extent of years is always futile, relation. When a horse beats the best but there seems good ground for the of his rivals in England and in France belief that the son of Walmsgate and the alike his position is surely established, unnamed daughter of Luminary and especially when in the English race he Quinine was one of the very best ’chasers has carried a record burden. in the history of the sport. He is of There are others who seem well quali­ course unique in having won the Grand fied to maintain the character of the National and the Grand Steeplechase de English ’chaser, notably Balscadden. Paris, it being also remarkable that he Nothing more extraordinary has been should previously have run second for seen for many years than the victory of both these notable events, on each this horse at Gatwick after he had to all A LOOK ROUND 355

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THE PARADE FOR THE LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP

BAY COLT BY SPEARMINT FLAIR, BOUGHT IN FOR 3 ,7 0 0 GUINEAS AT THE JULY SALES, NEWMARKET Photographs by W. A. Roach A LOOK ROUND 357 appearance been hopelessly beaten off. next June. Much faith is placed in the When 33 to 1 is offered against a runner future of Sir Charles Assheton-Smith’s midway through a race, as it was at Bernstein, whose breeding is certainly Gatwick in the Tantivy Steeplechase, unexceptionable. His sire, St. Gris, is abject failure naturally looks inevitable ; one of the two horses who beat Flying and yet Balscadden won with compara­ Fox. A son of Galopin and Isabel comes tive ease at the finish. If horses are of a breed not to be surpassed, and coming straight towards the spectator it Bernstein’s dam, Esthetic Anne, was is difficult to judge how they are going. rich in jumping blood, a daughter of I have never been more surprised than Ascetic—by the Derby winner—Hermit when the horse came prominently on the and Gentle Annie. For Bernstein Sir scene in this contest after having toiled Charles Assheton-Smith paid 3,800

HUNG WELL, THE WINNER OF THE WATERLOO CUP.

far in the rear and bungled at every guineas, and it is generally considered fence. It is rather strange that, as in that the colt is well worth the money. the case of Jerry M, Balscadden’s dam Holy War, for whom Sir Charles gave never received a name. This is awkward a slightly larger sum, was also, it is to when breeding is discussed. He is a son be noted, a son of Bernstein’s sire. So of Pilot and a mare by Wellington— far Bernstein has only run over hurdles, Erminie. Balscadden, it will be remem­ but an idea prevails that he is tolerably bered, won the Auteuil Grand Hurdle certain to earn fame as a steeplechaser. Race last year, as also the Prix de Bezons With these and others who could be a fortnight previously, and great hopes named it is beyond the mark to talk of are entertained that he will follow Jerry the deterioration of the modern jumper. M’s example by taking the steeplechase 358 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

AT ALTCAR The Waterloo Cup must not time. Huldee was the second string be passed without com­ from whom not very much was expected. memoration. I do not profess to be an The superior of the two injured himself authority on coursing, but it is the by running against a gate, yet Huldee opinion of those who are competent to was only beaten by Mr. Hill-Wood’s

HULDEE, WITH HIS OWNER AND TRAINER

speak on the subject that Mr. Hulton, Hung Well, of whom a picture is given though he produced the runner-up in together with one of the runner-up and Huldee, was unlucky not to gain this his owner. I have included a photo­ trophy, “ The Blue Riband of the graph of Mr. Keswick’s Dancing Dervish Leash/’ as it is called, for the second looking out of the window of a fly after A LOOK ROUND 359 losing his heat. A little imagination will Coaten, who has described the Show suggest much eloquent significance in the Season for several years past, again expression of his face. contributes his accustomed article, com­ piled after consultation with all sorts of authorities. Some golfers have com­ THE CONTENTS The continuation of the plained that insufficient attention is paid OF THE “ Then and Now ” Series in the Magazine to the game which has MAGAZINE deals with Fishing by a so great an interest for a multitude of keen angler, Mr. Percy readers, and in the “ Call of the Links ” Stephens, who a few years ago wrote a Mr. Garden Smith gossips on the subject

h u l d e e ’ s t o i l e t number of papers for the Magazine which of some of the most famous courses. enjoyed remarkable success when after­ Ladies this month fill a considerable wards issued in book form. Prophecies portion of the number. One of the that the horse would speedily disappear articles is open to the criticism of not before the advent of the motor are being being on the subject of sport or pastime altogether falsified, and, indeed, the —Lady Westmacott’s “ With the Turks prophecy was obviously absurd. Good at San Stefano.” The author is, however, horses were never in more demand, as is a contributor whose easy, bright, and conclusively proved by the prices they graphic style is warmly appreciated, and fetch; and horse shows were never more her experiences were remarkable. She popular and attractive. Mr. Arthur desired to be of service to the wounded 360 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE in the war where aid was most needed, the training of spaniels and retrievers and spared neither money nor pains to may be most successfully effected. Miss carry out her benevolent intentions. Her Frances Pitt gives another of her keenly - paper seems to me, and will, I think, observant nature studies in “ Strange seem to readers, to be specially valuable Foster-Mothers,” striking instances of

DANCING DERVISH AFTER LOSING HIS HEAT as containing hints as to how things the maternal instinct in animals who should and should not be done. Mrs. have adopted most unlikely children. Stuart Menzies suggests a new occupa­ That cats, for example, should mother tion for ladies resident in the country in rabbits and rats instead of devouring “ Diana and her Dogs,” showing how them would have struck many readers A LOOK ROUND 361 as incredible but for the evidence which and as regards fiction there is another Miss Pitt produces. The other paper instalment of “ By the Brown Bog,” by a lady is Miss Fortescue’s “ Falcon which I may observe is presently to be Hunt in Asia Minor,” a vivid and enter­ taining sketch of sport such as few issued in book form by Messrs. Longman, Europeans can ever have enjoyed. The and a tale of the French Turf called “ The football pictures speak for themselves, Owners of Octopus.”

A FINISH AT KEMPTON Photograph by W. A. Rouch LANDING A TROUT Photograph by W. A. Rouch THEN AND NOW No. 4—FISHING

BY PERCY STEPHENS (The object of these “ Then and Now ” articles is to show the changes which have taken place in the various sports and games ; how they were practised in their early days, and how they have altered and developed.— E d . )

I s u p p o s e that fishing can claim with tracing its history through the writings hunting to be the oldest of all forms of of the Prophet Amos, Oppian, Gesner, sport ; indeed, if such a thing be possible, Dame Juliana Berners, Isaac Walton, both of them are older than sport itself, and in more modern times of Francis dating back to the time when they were Francis, Cholmondeley Pennell, and Sir a necessity to human existence ; and Edward Grey—he can but deal with the at that period of the world’s history fringe of the matter. when “ our only plots were piled in lakes Moreover it seems to me that of all at Berne ” it is probable that fishing forms of sport fishing has undergone the ranked as the more useful, and therefore least change throughout the countless the higher of the two. ages of its history. Compare, [for It is consequently scarcely necessary instance, a fast thing with the Quom to point out that it is not within the poor of to-day with a run in the comparatively ability of the writer to deal exhaustively recent period when the Duke of Bucking­ with its subject from, let us say, the ham hunted that part of Yorkshire now time of Seth, son of Adam, reputed known as the Sinnington country, or by ancient writers to be the father of grouse-driving with the sport that our angling, down to the present day, forefathers enjoyed in the early days of THEN AND NOW—FISHING 363 the fowling-piece with a “ setting ” dog in the world, experience has introduced and—when they were lucky enough to more or less trifling variations or im­ get it—a sitting covey, and contrast the provements in the art and its necessary difference in methods and equipment. appliances, such as the Nottingham style Yet in the days of childhood when you of “ long corking,” the Thames method and I, gentle reader, sought to entice of ledgering for barbel, the use of the the silvery roach or voracious perch from paternoster for pike and perch, and the its native element—and thereby tasted substitution of gut for horsehair, though such rare pleasure as no sport has given I believe the Metropolitan roach-fishers us since— our procedure differed but little are still faithful to the latter; but the from that of our primeval ancestors. In naturally-ordained principle of bait- each case the rod was probably a pliant fishing cannot vary to any extent

SALMON FISHING ON THE TWEED Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency wand ravished from the nearest hazel whether one seeks to entice a shark or willow bush, and though the hook on with a lump of salt pork dangling from which we threaded our bait was of steel* an iron chain, or a carp with a green pea and not laboriously fashioned of bone impaled on the tiniest of “ crystal ” or flint, and our line of hemp and not of hooks mounted on drawn gut. deer sinews, the actual manner in which None the less, it is undoubtedly the we attempted to take our quarry was, case that a considerable change has and will always continue to be, precisely gradually occurred in pike fishing the same— there is very little “ then ” procedure ; for I take it that spinning, about bottom-fishing. It is, of course, whether with the artificial or natural inevitable that, as with everything else dead bait, is of comparatively modern

* The ancient Egyptians used steel fish-hooks, beautifully finished specimens of which have been found in their tombs. CAUGHT From an oil painting by H. Allen THEN AND NOW—FISHING 365 growth, and that our forefathers rarely There is, however, one special branch employed any other methods than the— of the art of spinning, whether for pike to me—revolting ones of live-baiting or or trout, that so far as I am aware has dead-gorging ; and Walton’s oft-quoted died out—the beautiful old Thames style instructions how to impale a live frog of recovering the line into the palm of on a hook and sew up its leg “ with a the hand instead of allowing it to coil fine needle and thread, and in so doing on the ground to kink and catch in every use him as though you loved him that possible obstruction. Personally, I have he may live the longer ” deservedly never seen but one man— the late Sir called forth Byron’s caustic lines on the Henry Pottinger— who practised it, or “ quaint old cruel coxcomb.” So far even knew how to do it, and I believe

A GOOD I’ERCH Photograph by W . A. Rouch as I am aware live-baiting is rarely he had learnt when a boy at Eton practised nowadays and gorge-baiting from a professional fisherman. Curiously not at a ll; practically all pike are killed enough the only reference to this particu­ on artificial spinning baits, among which lar manner of spinning that I have ever none are more successful than the now come across in literature is in fiction— old-fashioned American spoon. Yet I in Henry Kingsley’s “ Ravenshoe.” believe this was only invented towards Those who, like myself, love this the middle of the last century, and the delightful book will recollect how Charles reputed original pattern of it was lay on the sofa watching through Lord exhibited as a curiosity at the World’s Hainault’s telescope the “ tall grey­ Fair Exhibition at Chicago a few years headed gentleman ” spinning a bleak ago. for trout in the weir at Casterton and.

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how “ he sent his bait flying out here fifty who can cast a fly with reasonable and there across the water and rattled accuracy and neatness. his line rapidly into the palm of his hand It is probable that fly-fishing is not in a ball, like a consummate master as much junior to bait-fishing in point of he was." It was an art as beautiful to antiquity ; it is tolerably certain that watch as useful to employ, and it is a the use of the artificial fly was known to matter for regret that it should have and practised by the Romans,* and the died out— possibly, however, it may still St. Albans “ Treatyse of Fvsshynge ’’ not

LORD CRAVEN HOOKS A BIG FISH AT BALMACAAN Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency

linger among the professional fishermen only deals with the matter but even of the Thames. gives a list of flies suitable for each By the way, why is it that spinning is month of the season, an example that usually regarded as an inferior branch of has been faithfully imitated by most angling to fly fishing ? It is a far more subsequent text books on angling. The difficult art, even with the modern earliest form of fly-fishing was un­ patent casting-reels, and for one man doubtedly “ dapeing ” — the angler who can spin an artificial minnow impaled a live fly on his hook and properly in slack water, I would find dangled it on the surface of the water—

* The first mention of fly-fishing occurs in Aelian’s De Natura Animalium. Aelian lived in the third century A.D. THEN AND NOW—FISHING 367 until the day when some primeval same ratio as the artificial fly, and fisherman possessed of a more sporting especially so within the last fifty or sixty instinct than his compeers, or more years ; how great the development may probably running short of natural bait, be best appreciated by comparing the conceived the notion of imitating it, single-piece rods of Walton’s time with a and thereby unwittingly earned the split cane creation of to-day, including gratitude of countless unborn generations steel centre, lock-fast joints, and snake of honest anglers. The original form of rings. Even Cotton who was a far artificial lure was probably a rough more advanced angler than his “ master,” wingless hackle-fly or palmer, and it has advocates the use of what he terms a taken centuries to produce the exquisite “ Yorkshire ” rod, 18 feet in length, and

SALMON FISHING ON THE ABERDEENSHIRE DEE, LORD PENRHYN WEIGHING HIS FISH Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency combinations of fur, feather, and tinsel made in ten or a dozen piecesjspliced that we now know as Red Quills, Jock together !* Still, clumsy as these rods Scotts, or the like. None the less, the must have been, they apparently served art of fly-tying had achieved a consider­ their purpose of killing fish, extraordinary able degree of excellence by the middle as this appears to our modem ideas, of the 17th century, as witness Cotton’s when one reflects that reels or winches list of, and directions for making, flies were unknown in those days. How their in the Complete Angler. owners contrived to play and land a The other accessories of the angler’s heavy fish is incomprehensible, unless equipment have been improved in the they adopted Walton’s heroic method of

* Sir John Hawkins, who brought out an edition of the Complete Angler in 1797, mentions the possibility of taking a rod to pieces and carrying it in a bag as an agreeable novelty I Y 2 368 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

“ giving it the rod,” as the honest wading-trousers, which superseded the haberdasher admits was his custom clumsy and unreliable leather thigh- when he met with an “ overgrown fish,” boots of the previous generation. Nay, i.e., throwing the rod bodily into the incredible as it may seem to the present water and presumably trust ng to luck one, there was a time—and that not so to recover it when the fish had exhausted very far distant—when those who were itself. Indeed he rather prides himself not content to fish from the bank used on this device, styling it “ an art ! ” to wade without any protection at all, Later writers on angling refer to and quoting from memory I seem to “ winders ” on their rods, which are recollect that Scrope, in his “ Days and generally believed to have been a piece Nights of Salmon Fishing,” recommends

MAJOR GLEN GRANT, A CHAMPION SPEY CASTER Photograph by W. A. Rouch of stick fastened crosswise to the butt the use of stinging nettles to restore the on which the line was wound, but the circulation to limbs chilled by long operation of uncoiling or recovering it immersion—of a truth there were giants when playing a fish must have been a in the land in those days ! I myself dreadfully clumsy one. when a youth at the famous Army But of all modern improvements in cramming establishment at Freiburg in fishing accessories few, in the writer’s Baden used to wade the trout-streams opinion, have contributed more to the of the Black Forest in a pair of old angler’s chances of success or comfort flannel trousers cut short at the thigh, than the introduction of waterproof and low shoes, thereby attracting to THEN AND NOW—FISHING 369 myself the derisive, or at times, outraged, the opening chapter of the “ Complete comment of the local inhabitants, a Angler ” avow that he has heard “ many practice to which, instead of a pre- merry huntsman make sport and scoff deliction for the pleasures of the table, at anglers while Auceps, the Falconer, I am occasionally inclined to attribute —a falconer if you please !—goes even the lumbago of later years. It is difficult further, and says “ many grave, serious to conceive a more heart-breaking pre­ men pity them, it is such a contemptible dicament for a sportsman of rheumatic recreation and it is pretty evident tendencies than the choice of wading that Walton, resenting the abominable unprotected, waist-deep in, say, the stigma under which the sport rested, Aberdeenshire Dee on one of those purposely introduces the subject in order bracing spring days when the line freezes to make the brave defence of it that he in the rings, or leaving a pool half-fished ; does. Even admitting the probable

SALMON FISHING ON THE ABERDEENSHIRE DEE Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency a situation which presents no terrors to levity of the “ merry huntsmen ”—I the flannel and rubber-cased angler of myself before now have suffered at the the present day. hands of fox-hunters—it seems in­ The last forty or fifty years have seen credible that “ grave, serious ” persons a remarkable growth in the general should speak disrespectfully of the con­ estimation of angling. Though its templative man’s recreation, while as votaries count it highest of all, it is for falconers—what honest angler need undeniable that fishing, which lacks the regard their opinion ? glitter of more pretentious sports, has Various factors make for the increased always been regarded as rather a pitiful popularity of fishing—the concomitant amusement. Does not Venator—who growth of population and wealth, the after all was only an otter-hunter—in opening up of new districts by railways, 370 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE the influence of sporting literature, and Indeed, prior to this date the only means many others— with the result that now­ of communication with Scandinavia was adays everyone who is anything of a by timber-ships or lobster-boats, and I sportsman is more or less of a fisherman believe I am correct in saying that it —just as everybody plays golf or bridge was the support afforded by the early in order to be “ like other people.” Now, Anglo - Scandinavian salmon - fishers to admirable as this state of things may be the one passenger steamer then running from one point of view, it has its reverse from the Humber to Norway that laid side in that fishing—good, bad, or in­ the foundation of the great fleet of different—is daily becoming more diffi­ Wilson liners now trading to every part cult of acquisition save at a cost which of the globe. increases in like ratio— the price of But what sport awaited these pioneers everything is naturally regulated by the and at what a price ! To give merely demand ; and I fancy that most born one instance : in 1858 nine miles of one anglers—as opposed to the manufactured of the most accessible first-class rivers in article—regretfully look back to the days Norway was leased for 35/- a year! when the sport had not attained its while those adventurous spirits who did present popularity, or perhaps it would not mind roughing it and explored more be more correct to say “ its social out-of-the-way districts found virgin position.” streams at their disposal for the mere Time was, and that not very long ago, asking. Nay, as late as 1888, I myself when trout-fishing in out-of-the-way when elk-hunting in a little-known comer districts was to be had for the asking ; of Northern Norway, chanced on a small now, where it is not rigidly preserved by salmon-river in which, so far as I could the owners, it is let to angling associations ascertain, no Englishman had ever wetted or leased to hotels to attract custom. a fly. Of course it was not a first-class And what a change in the character and stream, chiefly frequented by grilse and appearance of the latter ! Gone are the sea-trout, yet my stalker told me he had old-fashioned fishing-inns, the Red Lions killed salmon in it up to 30 lb. in weight and the Blue Dragons that some of us with a worm. In Scotland its rental can still regretfully remember, with their would have been counted in hundreds homely comfort and simple fare : their of pounds. place has been taken by “ hotels ” with The chief modem development—one plate-glass windows, electric lighting, might almost term it a revolution— of mahogany “ lounges,” and German fly-fishing is the use of the dry fly, which waiters to hand you ill-cooked American was first practised on the southern chalk- meat masquerading under French names. streams almost fifty years ago,* prior to It is a positive fact that at the last two which date the use of a cast of two or inns where the writer stayed for fishing even three, flies fished wet was general a table d’hote dinner was served every on these waters, though a crude form of night at the very hour of the evening the art had probably existed since time rise on the river ! immemorial—the earliest fly-fishermen Or again, take salmon - fishing in presumably “ daped ” their artificial lure Norway. Although the earliest known on the surface of the water as they had Englishman — Sir Hyde Parker — to been accustomed to do with the natural exploit this did so as long ago as 1828, it bait. But at present, in view of the was not until some thirty years later dogmatic attitude of the dry-fly school that others followed his example, and of fishermen and the prominence given then only in very limited numbers. to its ideas in modem angling literature}

* The earliest known allusion to dry-fly fishing is fou id in Pulman’s Vade Mecum of Fly Fishing for Trout, published in 1841. THEN AND NOW—FISHING 371 it might not unreasonably be imagined change : it is as immutable Now as it by laymen that no other form of fly­ was Then, and as it will continue to be fishing was practicable or even permis­ to the end of all things. This is the sible ; yet, as a matter of fact, it is the precious gift specially vouchsafed to pastime of a very small proportion of anglers— the sense of intimate com­ anglers confined to limited and specific munion with the very heart of Nature, and localities, though, of course, occasions which in the writer’s humble experience arise on all rivers when the ability to is afforded by no other sport, but is use the dry-fly is of undoubted value. peculiar to fishing alone. This feeling Indeed, of late years there have not been has been described by one of the most wanting backsliders from the “ cult,” gifted writers* on angling, in language prominent among them being the late so simple and yet so beautiful as I Mr. Earl Hodgson, who not only main­ could not pretend to, and I therefore tained, but proved, it was possible to offer no apology for quoting it here :— kill chalk-stream trout on a wet fly. “ People talk of being a child of Nature

ON THE TEST WITH THE DRY FLY Photograph by W. A. Rouch While yielding the fullest meed of and moments such as these are the times admiration to the exquisite skill of the when it is possible to feel so ; to know art of dry-fly fishing, it has always the full joy of animal life— to desire seemed to me in my own rather limited nothing beyond. There are times when experience, a somewhat tedious amuse­ I have stood still for joy of it all, on my ment as compared with the freedom of way through the wild freedom of a the wet-fly on swift-flowing mountain- Highland moor, and felt the wind, and born rivers ; but this, after all, is purely looked upon the mountains and water a matter of taste and, I might add, of and light and sky, till I felt conscious temperament. only of the mighty current of life, which Finally, there is one attribute of fishing swept away all consciousness of self, and which has never changed, nor will ever made me a part of all that I beheld.”

* Sir Edward Grey. BY THE BROWN BOG

Being some episodes in the life of an Irish D. I.

BY L.P.Y. AND II.E.M.

No. VII.—THE LUCK OF INISHMONA

“ So Fossy’s a settled man at last,” said vanished. “ Yes, you know, it’s the very Mrs. Jimmy Barry Lushington between devil, Mrs. Jimmy, Phil’s taking so to her efforts to keep her smart little cob that rotter. He’s been cornin’ high art from kicking her trap to pieces or over her, and nothin’ I can say does her stamping on one of Mr. Willie Jamieson’s any good. The beggar’s never out best black and tan staghounds. “ Why of her pocket. What the blazes ever aren’t you following his example your­ made you bring him over, Trevor ? ” self, Hugh ? It’s a shame to see a nice “ I didn’t,” I protested ; “ it was my young girl like Phil makin’ an exhibition sister, so you oughtn’t to complain.” of herself with that ladylike Englishman “ Well, I can’t have Phil goin’ marryin’ of yours,” and Mrs. Jimmy cast a con­ him anyhow. I’d sooner see her take temptuous eye on the Honourable Lionel you, Trevor, though goodness knows the Cyllius as he rode past, deep in conver­ old place wants some money.” sation with Phil O’Hara; “ but I’m “ Well, put your brains to work at it afraid Fossy, as usual, had the best of Fossy,” said Mrs. Jimmy— “ that is if you ! Come over here to me, Fossy. you can think of anything except your That’s a nice trick you played poor Hugh Gwen. Hallo, there’s Willie makin’ a here, foistin’ the little Cyllius off your move ! ” girl on to his.” “ Why aren’t you riding, Mrs. Jimmy ? The inane smile of the newly-engaged called Jamieson, as he sidled past with man which sat so ridiculously on Fossy his hounds, beautiful specimens of the BY THE BROWN BOG 373 old black and tan Irish staghound breed, nostrils quivering, he gazed round in­ one of the few packs left in Ireland. quisitively till Jamieson cracked his “ Ah, Willie, I’ve given it up now for whip, then with one bound he was off good an’ all, since I got a little hint from with that indescribable hopping canter the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals peculiar to the deer. people that no horse could be expected “ By Jove, I left my lunch in the trap,” to carry my weight. However, I’ll take said Cyllius, whose horse was beginning me oath I’ll head the drivers, anyway ! ” to show signs of ill-temper. “ I’ll just “ Where are you goin’ to enlarge ? ” go back and get it and catch you up.” “ And that’s the thing you’ve taken “ Oh, the cart’s goin’ on down to such a fancy to, Phil,” grunted Fossy, Ryan’s field. We have the little buck with a disgusted eye fixed on Cyllius’ that gave us the great run last week. distinctly uncertain seat as he bumped He’ll be apt to give us a good hunt to­ towards the gate. day, I think.” “ Well, even if he can’t ride he’s As we jogged on after the hounds down uncommonly interesting. He has got a narrow muddy bohireen, I tried to some ideas beyond horses and hounds,” squeeze Pancake up beside Phil, but she snapped Phil, “ and I don’t think you’re evidently was not anxious to have her the one to talk, Fossy, after the shame­ deeply technical conversation with ful way you treated him in the North.” Cyllius about Paulo Post-Impressionist Fossy shrugged his shoulders. “ Well, art interrupted, so I pulled back only to you women are queer cattle ; there’s no find myself mixed up with Fossy and understandin’ you at all. Is time up yet, Gwen. Jamieson ? ” J amieson had now whipped the hounds “ Yes, just. You can lay em’ on now, into a farmyard and the deer cart turned Mick, I think.” in at a neighbouring gate. The ubiqui­ “ Right, sorr,” and the yard gate being tous Timsy had attached himself to thrown open, out surged a wave of black Jamieson’s men and was giving instruc­ and tan. tions as to the manner born. For a moment hounds circled and “ Arrah, can’t ye turn the tail of the hovered, and then, hitting the line, they cart round an’ give him a chance ? D’ye were away with that glorious deep- want him to be goin’ in to take a sup o’ throated music only heard with the tay with Mrs. Flaherty there beyant ? hounds of this breed. That’s better ! Will I be lettin’ the laddo It was a fine open country of big walls out now, your honour ? ” turning to and banks, across which the pack simply Jamieson and pulling his forelock. raced so close together that a tablecloth “ Arrah, where are ye shovin’ to ? Will might have covered them, and I noticed ye mind your manners there ! ” as the that the terrific pace did not interfere in second whip pushed him on one side the least with their low-noted music. and let down the back of the cart with The melody of foxhounds had never a bang. thrilled me as this did. I had never For a moment nothing happened, and hunted before with Jamieson’s hounds, Timsy gave it a sharp rap. “ Now then, and after fifteen minutes I was hoping come out of that, ye shaper, and join in for a check, as Pancake was beginning the sport ! ’Tis not like ye to be keepin’ to fly signals of distress ; but I was soon the gentry waitin’ for their divarsion ! ” to find out that there was no short fox­ After another short pause an alert hound scurries about the black and tans, little head appeared, and out hopped a in fact two hours was quite an average pretty little fallow deer, not much bigger hunt with them. than a well-grown goat. Head up, Thirty-five minutes from the start 374 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE hounds threw up their heads at some Punch was just eatin’ his dinner be the water, and I slipped off Pancake, whose fire, and be the yell he let he must have heaving flanks showed that there was no thought it was the Phuca himself cornin’ more left in him. in on the top of him. Punch is a slow- “ Here, your honour, take my horse,” movin’ man, an’ before he could leave cried a red-faced young farmer, slipping the road the stag caught him full belt in off a half-clipped roan, which apparently the stomach. Over goes Punch with the hadn’t turned a hair ; “ sure them fox­ dinner on the top of him, an’ faith the huntin’ horses is no good for this work. stag lepped the lot ; an’ just then out Give me yours an’ I’ll slip on with him comes the hounds on to the road an’ into to the end. Sure I know well where that the kitchen with them ; an’ faith it was little staggeen is shapin’ for.” their stoppin’ to lap up ould Punch’s I hesitated for a moment, but Fossy dinner that saved that stag’s life. whispered in my ear, “ Better take it, “ ‘ Hurry on, man ! ' I shouts to Cyllius Trevor ; young Carty’s always anxious ‘ and get that stag housed before they for a deal and you might like that roan have him ate ! ’ but he does nothin’ —he’s a useful-looking horse.” but stare at me like a stuck pig I scrambled up just as hounds got through that glass eye of his ; but as going again. “ Pelt him hard at the luck should have it, at that moment up banks, your honour,” shouted Carty comes young Carty on your horse, Hugh, after me ; “ sure he knows nothin yet and rattles him straight at the wall into about changin’, but if ye ride him fast the yard. ‘ Look out, man ! ’ I shouted, enough at them, he’ll lep the lot.” ‘ for the love of heaven don’t go there ! The roan was raw, but had a wonder­ There’s a pig-sty the other side ! ” but fully powerful stride and was as hard as the divil a stop he stops, and he may nails. I confess that 1 was a little nervous thank every saint in the calendar that at the first bank, a large one with a big old Pancake is a good lepper, for he got ditch on the take-off side, but, following over it safe an’ sound, just rappin’ the Carty’s advice, I “ pelted him at it,” and door of the sty with his heels as he came with a magnificent drive of his great down, and Carty was just in the nick of quarters he flew the whole thing—per­ time to whip old Roysterer off the deer’s haps not a very safe way of jumping quarters.” banks but a wonderfully exhilarating It was as we were jogging home that one. Gwen broke it to me that Mrs. Jimmy The rest of the hunt, which lasted had invited us all to go over in her yacht about another hour, was remarkably to Inishmona Island the next day and fine from the rider’s point of view, picnic. “ You know, Hugh, it will be and judging from Mrs. Jim m y’s account too lovely. It is quite eight miles out afterwards exceedingly amusing from on the Atlantic, and Mrs. Jimmy says that of the onlooker. they have stone beehive huts just like “ Sure, knowin’ well the line ye’d take those they have on the Libyan desert, I was after slippin’ across to Punch’s and speak nothing but Irish, and the corner, the Englishman cornin’ with me, nearest parish straight ahead is in him not earin’ I suppose to be parted America.” Gwen paused breathless and far from his lunch ; an’ I was just thinkin I groaned. Eight miles out in the of puttin’ up the cob, when what should Atlantic even in a millionaire’s yacht lep out into the road but the little stag was not to my taste, and I had a whole­ himself. We stands lookin' at each other some recollection of what Mrs. Jimmy’s for a minute quiet as mice, but bedad was like. However, it all seemed to be when he caught sight of the Englishman arranged, as usual, without reference to he makes a dive for Punch’s door. Ould me, and my one consolation was that BY THE BROWN BOG 375

Cyllius did not look any happier than I us men to sit on, even Cyllius’ efforts to felt. place a cushion for himself being Next morning when Gwen and I arrived frustrated by Mrs. Jimmy making him at the broken breakwater which did duty give it to her. for a pier we found the rest of the party “ Mind you keep a tight hold on me already being ferried to the yacht in a darlin’ fox, Cyllius, she’s apt to get sea­ dinghy by Timsy. Standing in the midst sick an’ she might jump overboard. of luncheon baskets, mackintoshes, rugs, I’ve felt that way myself sometimes.” fishing tackle, spirit stoves and other We had cleared the furthest point of oddments, was Cyllius looking like a the bay by now, and were beginning to worried footman, there having been no heave on the long Atlantic swell. I am room for him in the dinghy. not a good sailor, even at the best of “ What’s up with Cyllius now, I times, and scrambling from one side to the wonder ? ” I asked as we clambered out other every five minutes as we went about towards the end of the pier, and then I on short tacks is not calculated to make saw that he was gingerly holding Mrs. one mind the motion any the less. I Jimmy’s ten-week-old pet fox, which was not ill, though I must confess I was was making playful snaps at his hands not anxious to be talked to—and I noticed and face. that there was a distinctly strained " Good morning, Miss Trevor. Mrs. expression on the faces of Phil and Gwen, Barry Lushington seems to be con­ who had now ceased chattering of the templating making a long stay on this delights of yachting. Better perhaps cannibal island of hers. Just look at all not to enquire too closely into the this luggage ! ” condition of Cyllius, who ten minutes “ Yes,” said Gwen, “ Mrs. Jimmy after the start gave up all attempts at told me yesterday that if the wind keeping up an intellectual conversation changed we mightn’t be able to get with Phil, and retired to the bows where back to-night, indeed people have often he sat mournfully with his head in his been kept there for a week or more.” hands, allowing Mary the fox to roam “ But we’ve got no clothes ?” Cyllius at her own sweet will over the boat. was bewailing, when Timsy came up “ What the devil’s a lobster pot doing with the dinghy and began stowing away as far out as this,” asked Fossy, suddenly, the sundries which littered the stones. pointing to a small cork buoy bobbing “ Come on, now, your honours,” said up and down in the seas. Timsy. “ I’m thinkin’ she’ll take the “ How should I know ! ” I grunted, lot of yez if ye’re quoite.” feeling that for all I cared at that “ Is it safe ? ” asked Cyllius, apprehen­ moment they might catch lobsters any­ sively, as he seated himself. However where they liked. his thoughts were soon fully occupied in “ Begob, Master Fossy,” said Timsy, trying to pacify the pet fox, which was clambering aft along the weather gun­ nervous on the water, and I’m afraid he wale like a cat, “ ’tis the quare lobster had a poor time on the way out to the ye’d find at the bottom of that. Sure, yacht. don’t ye know that they do a great trade There was a nasty little chop even in in poteen from that island, but the hearts the bay, and I thought dismally of what of the crathurs is broke dodgin’ the it would be like outside. The “ yacht ” polis, an’ the only way they can do it was really only a large open lugger, now is to sink it halfway to Ireland and rigged by the late Mr. Barry Lushington the fishermen pick it up when they’re Chinese fashion, with two large lug trawlin’. Ye’d find a couple or three sails, and ballasted with huge bags of grand casks under that, I’m thinkin’.” stones which were the only things left for “ Hold on a minute an’ we’ll pull ’em 376 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

up,” said Mrs. Jimmy, “ Cyllius up there “ That’s you, Cyllius,” said Fossy, looks as if a drop of it would do him grinning. “ Hope you’ve brought your good.” sovereign case with you. Trevor, you’d “ Do nothin’ of the sort,” answered better not let on that you’re the officer.” Fossy, quickly, “ I’ll not have Inishmona It was rather curious to think as poteen interfered with. Aren’t I the we gazed at the beach now only a few landlord, an’ if the islanders don’t sell yards distant that we were only eight their stuff the divil a penny of rent will miles off the coast of Ireland, and yet I see next gale ! ” that hardly one of the several hundred “ Arrah, sure, Inishmona’s rotten with people before us could speak one word it,” said Timsy, who was evidently in of English, in fact, they might have favour of Mrs. Jimmy’s proposal, “ I been of quite another race. Behind the hear that even the children’s dhrunk crowd who all bared their heads as we there after they’ve a big brew made. drew inshore we could see groups of stone Holy fly ! look at Mary in the cream ! ” huts looking exactly like inverted cups. Even the most seasick of us turned to We learnt afterwards that it was only see Mary’s whole head buried in a large the very poorest who lived in them, the jug of cream which she was lapping aristocracy of the island preferring greedily. A shout from Mrs. Jimmy wretched mud cabins which really did startled her, up went her head, jug, not afford half such good accommodation. cream and all. A shake failing to free As we gazed curiously around, a her, her nerve went, and with a muffled venerable-looking old man stepped bark of terror she scampered down the forward to greet us. He must have been boat urged on by a wild “ Gone away ” very tall once, but was now bent with whoop from Fossy. age, though he still made a striking “ Oh, me darlin’ 'ull be overboard ! ” figure, with snow-white hair and a beard shrieked Mrs. Jimmy, but “ me darlin’ ” which nearly reached to his waist. He was neatly fielded by the ever-ready was wearing the old Irish cutaway coat Timsy just as she was going over the and knee breeches so rarely seen nowa­ stern, and handed dripping with cream days, and he removed his hat and made to Mrs. Jimmy, who coaxed off the jug a sweeping bow with the most perfect and made much of her pet, quite natural, grace. oblivious of the fact that the rest of “ Misther Fossy O’Hara,” he began in the party would have to content them­ wonderfully good English, but with the selves with creamless tea. hesitation of one unaccustomed to its At last we began to draw in near the use, “ as king of the island of Inishmona, island of Inishmona, and we saw that I greet you in the name of my people, the beach was rapidly crowding with an’ the English lord too,” here he paused people who were watching our approach and gazed doubtfully at Cyllius, whom with curious excitement. Timsy had indicated with a backward “ Begob, they’re thinkin’ we’re the jerk of his thumb. polis,” said Timsy, and jumping into “ I’m afeared ye can’t come in any the gunwale he shouted something in closer,” he went on, “ the water shallows Irish. Instantly a great shout of greatly, but sure, some of the boys will welcome went up from the shore, and carry ye in on their backs.” half-a-dozen men ran out on to a dilapi­ He waved his hand and half-a-dozen dated jetty to catch our ropes. sturdy islanders waded out to the yacht. “ Sure, I ’m after telling them that it Mrs. Jimmy looked at them quizzically was their landlord, Masther Fossy, for a moment. bringing an English lord w ho’ll be like “And how am I goin’ in on anyone’s to buy any amount of the good stuff.” back ? ” she asked, “ Sure it would take BY THE BROWN BOG 377 all the lads in Inishmona to carry me an illicit still. It was not my district o v e r ! so I felt no qualms of conscience. “ Rot, Mrs. Jimmy," cried Fossy, who We got back to find Mrs. Jimmy and had taken off his shoes and stockings Timsy just finishing spreading out the and jumped into the water, “ here, me lunch. Phil, sitting smoking a cigarette, lad, lay hold of my arm. Steady now, looked quite happy ; she had evidently all together and up with her," and Phil solved the difficulty of clothes more and Gwen collapsed in helpless laughter successfully than Cyllius, who turned up as Mrs. Jim m y’s huge figure was borne as we sat down to lunch, his half-dried in state towards the beach. clothes clinging sadly about him. “ Fossy,” said Mrs. Jimmy, after I was amused to see that Gwen hardly lunch, “ do you think Murrough there hesitated before trusting herself to the would show us that old idol they set tender mercies of one of the men waiting such store by ? ’’ in the water, when I thought of how she “ I ’m sure he would. I ’ll go and ask would have shuddered at the thought a him anyway." year ago. “ Surely they don't worship idols Nothing would now content Cyllius here ? ’’ asked Cyllius, “ only eight miles but that Phil should attempt the crossing from a Christian country." on his somewhat inadequate shoulders. “ Indeed then they do not, sir," this After a little fluttering hesitation, quite from Timsy." Isn’t me own aunt’s unlike the old Phil we all knew, she mother’s cousin living here, and him as scrambled on to his back. good a Catholic as meself ? But ’tis a lucky Whether Cyllius was still upset by the image been in the island these hundreds of voyage, or whether he slipped on a stone, years, an’ there’s an old pishogue that the never transpired, but the fact remains luck will leave the island with the image." that half-way to the shore they both “ If your honours and ladyships are completely disappeared under water, and ready now, will you be coming up to the I shall never forget the contrast of their chapel," said Murrough. faces as they staggered to their feet, We followed on up the long stony hill dripping and spluttering — Cyllius’ to a bleak little wind-swept chapel, expression one of helpless rather injured where the priest from the mainland bewilderment, Phil’s one of unmistakable celebrated Mass as often as he could indignation, rendered even more comical get over. by the immense dignity with which she Facing the door of the chapel, on a stalked ashore and disappeared with stone pedestal, its back against a rough- Gwen into the nearest cottage without built niche in the wall, was an extra­ vouchsafing a word to the stammered ordinary black wooden image, half apologies of her unlucky bearer. human, half bird. It had evidently “ If you take my tip, Cyllius," said been a figurehead of some old Armada Fossy, “ you’ll let her cool awhile, and ship wrecked off the island. It is easy go you and get your clothes dried. She’d to trace Spanish blood in types and eat the face off you now, and small blame names all down the west coast of Ireland. to her," he added, under his breath. I noticed that Murrough took off his hat " Come with me, Trevor. I want to as he passed the idol, but whether this- show you something I think would was merely preparatory to entering the interest you." chapel or not I could not say. I followed Fossy and Murrough, styled Murrough passed on into the chapel the King of the Island, over some rough while we stopped a moment to examine boggy ground, and spent the next hour more closely the quaint old figurehead. looking over the intricate workings of “ Really, you know, I should like to- 378 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE have a souvenir to show people in “ You damn fool,” said Fossy, between England that such things really do his teeth, “ do you realise what you ’ve exist over here,” drawled Cyllius, and done now ? Haven’t you any idea what before any of us could stop him, he had these people are like when roused ? He’s whipped out a penknife and chipped off gone down now to tell the islanders, and a small piece of the idol’s wing. The we’ll be lucky if we get out of this with small chip might have passed unnoticed, whole skins. I wouldn’t mind so much but at the crucial moment old Murrough if it wasn’t for the women.” came out of the chapel door to see why “ What a ridiculous fuss about we were not following him. nothing,” said Cyllius, trying to hide his The old man stalked down the uneven confusion with a show of self-confidence. steps and up to Cyllius, without a word, “ Why, these people would never dare eyes blazing, mouth working, and took to interfere with us ! ” him roughly by the shoulder, and in a “ I don’t know so much about that,” voice trembling with rage and emotion said Mrs. Jimmy. “ You’re not in he addressed him. Piccadilly Circus now, my fine fellow, and these islanders are a law unto them­ “ And is it the custom of your English selves. It isn’t once in a blue moon lords to come over to what they call a they see the sight of a policeman’s heathen country, and think they can uniform here. However, the mischief is despoil and desecrate wherever they go, done now, and I’m thinkin’ we’d better to bring back fine stories to their English be lighting out from here as quick as the friends about the pagan customs of the yacht can lay legs to the ground.” poor benighted Irish ? That figure has “ Aye, if we can,” said Fossy ; “ don’t stood there this three hundred years and you see the wind’s rising and there’ll be more, through storm and wind, famine an ugly sea running outside ? ” and plenty, till it has become known far It was the first time I had ever seen and wide through the length and breadth Fossy take things really seriously, and I of Ireland as “ the luck of Inishmona,” knew as we followed him down the hill and no man till now has dared to lay that he thought we were in a peculiarly an irreverent hand upon it. Mr. Fossy tight place. O’Hara, as King of this Island, by right “ Do you think,” I asked him—“ will and title of me ancestors, I have always they really attack us ? ” rendered to you as overlord the respect “ I couldn’t say. They would to a and homage which my forefathers gave dead cert if I wasn’t here, but as to yours, and now you turn around and their landlord I’m pretty popular. I let this outrage be done on me ! I tell expect they’ll shout and curse a bit, you,” turning to Cyllius again, “ you and that will do that fool Cyllius no proud Englishman, this is the worst day’s harm, gettin’ us into a mess like this.” work ye ever did for it will bring a black By now we had turned the bend and blight on the rest of your whole life.” came in sight of the bay. The whole We had all stood transfixed while population, about four hundred people, Murrough spoke, his voice trailing off were lining the beach and greeted our into a hoarse passionate whisper as he appearance with one deep roar of execra­ pronounced the curse at which I observed tion. I have listened to the anger of Cyllius turn remarkably white. For many a hostile crowd since I joined the fully a minute Murrough stood there Force, but never anything half so gripping his shoulder and gazing into threatening as the long, low, drawn-out his eyes while none of us moved or spoke, growl of the men of Inishmona. Fists then without another word he turned and sticks were shaken at us and every and strode down the hill. face showed savage anger at the outrage BY THE BROWN BOG 379 perpetrated on their most cherished and remained kicking there as though fetish. he was being held forcibly from within, As we neared the beach the growl and we could hear his muffled voice raised became a roar, and gradually merged in expostulation with someone inside. into a shrill note of hysterical rage. Fossy ran down, gripped him by the “ Good heavens ! ” gasped Cyllius, ankles, and putting his foot against the “ they mean murder ! ” hut dragged him slowly out like a badger I looked at him and saw that he was from his earth. As his head appeared deathly white, his nerve clean gone. He we saw that a pair of skinny arms were looked round frantically for some means clinging round his neck and his face bore of escape, and I could hear his breath five long scratches on each cheek. The coming in quick gasps ; it was not a half-dressed figure of an old, old woman pleasant exhibition, especially as the was dimly outlined in the darkness of girls and Mrs. Jimmy were walking on, the hut, gibbering furiously in Irish. white, it is true, but still showing no Fossy jerked Cyllius to his feet, and other sign of fear. Timsy was, as usual, gripping him by the coat collar marched invoking every calendared saint to save him down to the yacht. As we came on us. to the beach the crowd drew back “ Ah, musha, musha, but we’ll never sullenly, in obedience to Murrough’s leave the place alive ! Holy Martha and orders, and we waded out to the yacht Mary, they’ll tear us into rags ! Oh, in silence. Master Fossy, what did ye bring me with “ Thanks be to the saints we’re out of ye for ? Wasn’t I always telling ye it that with whole throats,” said Timsy, was a bad place ? ’ ’ piously ; “ only for old Murrough they’d At that moment an impetuous have us ate.” islander hurled a stone which just grazed No one paid any attention to Cyllius, Cyllius’ shoulder. It was too much for who had collapsed speechless in the him, and without a thought for the rest bows, and indeed, once clear of the of us he turned and bolted, making island, there was no time for unnecessary straight for the yacht, but as he came talk. The wind had freshened into a gale, within easier range of the islanders a and the seas were already running high, shower of small stones greeted him, and though luckily dead astern of us. With he swerved sharply and, bending almost a grim, set face, Fossy took the tiller, double, dived under the low door of a and Timsy and I stood ready to jump beehive hut, into which he vanished. to obey his snapped-out orders. Once In another moment the islanders Cyllius offered to help, but nobody took would have become absolutely out of the slightest notice of him except hand, but Murrough turned and faced Timsy, whose language was unprintable, them and harangued them in Irish. I and the unfortunate man dropped do not know much of the language, but dejectedly back into his seat. I knew I gathered that he was reproaching them by his face that the shame of that five for thus ill-using strangers, and urging minutes on the island would live with them to show that Irish hospitality him for ever. It almost looked as if the would stand even this test. A curse pronounced on him by Murrough pandemonium of sound now began to was beginning to work already. issue from the beehive hut— an old The next hour was a trying one, and woman’s cracked voice screaming curses again and again as we dropped into a in Irish, mingled with the barking of cavern in the seas and gazed up at the dogs and the cackling of fowls. Cyllius enormous walls of water on each side was evidently meeting with a warm of us, it seemed impossible that the reception. Suddenly his legs emerged, lugger could win her way ; and through 380 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE all those minutes of real peril Cyllius sat hated him from the moment he had absolutely unmoved, scarcely even come over, he had committed every con­ glancing at the seas. The memory of ceivable foolishness, but still no one his shame seemed to blot out all sense could help pitying him in his present of present danger. state of misery. “ Thank Heaven ! ” said Mrs. Jimmy, On the road were the three traps, two as we ran into the calm waters of the from Clonlaheen and my own. bay, “ for the last hour I was thinking “ You’d better come back and have that every minute would be our last, a bit of dinner with us, Hugh. You and the thought of a watery grave never drive Phil,” said Mrs. Jimmy, climbing did appeal to me. There’ll be water into her own trap. “ Get up beside me, enough to run her up to the pier now, I Gwen. Fossy, there’s room for you up think, Timsy ? ” behind with Timsy. Fossy steered us in deftly between the The third trap was left for Cyllius, rocks, and Timsy, jumping out, made us and as she was about to start Mrs. fast. Cyllius climbed out first, and, Jimmy turned to her groom and gave a turning, offered his hand with a sort of curt order as to the pace the young filly mute apology to Phil. The girl had was to be driven home. never spoken since that horrible moment Phil and I drove on in silence for some on Inishmona, but had sat with a white, time. She was a very sad, quiet little set face and eyes staring straight in front Phil, sitting rather crumpled beside me of her. Now she rose and gazed for a in the trap. I felt that whatever moment straight in the man’s face, then happened I must try telling her o^ my without a word deliberately turned her love again. shoulder on him and gave her hand to “ Phil, could you ever care, do you Timsy. think ? Cyllius stood as if petrified, never Silence. glancing at any of the rest of us or “ Have I no chance ? offering to help with any of the baskets, Again no answer. and then he swung round on his heel, “ Phil, please tell me ! ” and I could see his shoulders shaking as Suddenly she turned. “ Hugh, of he went clattering over the stony pier course I care, I think I always have,” towards the beach. Never in my life and added, irrelevantly, “ poor Mr. have I felt sorrier for a man than I did Cyllius ! How could I have been such for Cyllius at that moment. True, I had a fool !”

(Series to be concluded next month.) A CAT AND TWO YOUNG RABBITS THAT SHE REARED WITH HER KITTENS

STRANGE FOSTER-MOTHERING

BY MISS FRANCES PITT

With illustrations from Photographs taken by the author.

T h e r e is something very fascinating rabbits as well as two kittens of her own ; about the idea of one animal adopting but it was the small strangers to whom a helpless young one of some other she gave all her attention. She was species, with perhaps not the slightest constantly licking them, evidently trying affinity to itself, which has made the to clean away their peculiar smell, for subject a popular one in legend and myth I often saw her snuff them over and then since the days when the she-wolf was give each a good washing. The origin said to have adopted Romulus and of this family lay in my desire to have Remus, down to the present time, when some tame “ wild ” rabbits, so when our all young people, and some older ones cat had a family of kittens I begged the too, love the tale of Mowgli and his foster “ authorities ” not to destroy them for a parents, and the jungle folk. day or two, but to let me see first if I In some cases the mother will lavish could get some tiny rabbits for the old the most touching and tender care mother cat to adopt. My idea was on the adopted child, even to the laughed at by some of the family—the exclusion of the babies of her own flesh cat would only eat them I was told ! and blood. In one case that came under However I went for a walk through the my notice, a cat was rearing two little rough meadows bordering the wood, and

no. ccxiii. vol. xxxvi. — April, 1913 Z 382 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE proceeded to look for a rabbit’s nest. It into my pocket. Then I carefully was not long before I found what I replaced the sods and recovered the sought, a patch of newly-turned earth. entrance (next day I was glad to find It looked like a trodden-down mole hill, signs that the mother had been home) but I knew it was the covered-up and took my two back to the house. entrance to a rabbit nursery, so took the That evening when the cat came in spade I had brought with me and having from a walk round the garden, she must knocked away the surrounding bracken have been greatly puzzled by a change and brambles, I carefully moved away that had taken place in her kittens ; a spadeful of earth and uncovered the there were now only two black and hole. It went straight under the briar white ones, the other two having become bush, but it was easy to open it two or a brownish-grey ; but after a little three feet from the entrance straight hesitation she seemed to conclude the

CAT AND YOUNG RABBIT on to the top of the nest. There, exposed mistake had been on her side and got to the light of day for the first time, in a into the basket and cuddled them all up warm nest of fur from their mother’s in her arms. A minute or two later body lay half-a-dozen little rabbits. she began to wash the strange And by great good luck they were just “ kittens.” Then I was certain it was the right size for my purpose ! One all right ! could not have expected the cat to Now occurred a development I had not have adopted naked babies, but these expected. Another cat who had had were just old enough, and beautifully kittens at the same time, and whose hairy. family had been reduced to one, seemed Very carefully I lifted two of the wee to think that the rabbit family belonged creatures out of their nest, and put them to her, so she carried her baby into the STRANGE FOSTER-MOTHERING 383 basket, and established herself as mother always make me anxious, as I was afraid to the lot. In this way the rabbits that the cat might one day find out what acquired two mothers ! manner of creatures she really had to My efforts were now concentrated on deal with. To make matters worse she getting some photographs of this strange — or rather both of them — were family, but they all proved most tire­ inveterate poachers who had killed many some, and very difficult to take. From rabbits. However I at length got some the basket their quarters had been photographs taken without any mishap transferred to a tea chest, as they could having occurred, but only one or two of not get out of it so easily ; this box I my pictures show both cats, the two carried outside, and placed in a spot rabbits, and all the kittens, for, as I where there was plenty of light, as I have remarked, one or other was always thought rapid exposures would probably on the run. be necessary for such fidgeting little As the rabbits grew older they became

THE ADOPTED RABBIT creatures. But even my anticipations really sweet little creatures, and were did not approach the reality ! More perfectly tame. I took many negatives troublesome creatures I have never had of them alone for they behaved quite to photograph. They were always well when by themselves. running in one direction or the other, All went well for a time, the rabbits and their two parents were no better, as and kittens throve and flourished, they they kept going after the truants. It played together, and seemed the best was a strange sight to see a small rabbit of good comrades. People who had hopping away over the grass with an talked about “ the cats having rabbit anxious cat in pursuit ! Once puss tried for supper ” forgot their remarks, and to pick up the little creature, and bring only said “ how wonderful! ” Did I it back in her mouth as she would have begin to be rather uneasy when I saw done a kitten, but the rabbit did not the kittens — which were now big understand, and it kicked so much she creatures—getting very rough in their had to drop it. These experiments games with the bunnies, but still I did

Z 2 384 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE not take the hint, nor anticipate the the owls’ house, thinking as I did so what i coming tragedy ! One sad morning when a shame it seemed to kill such queer ! I came down stairs, I found the two old little babies, though I knew the owls ] cats in a frantic state, they were mewing would do it quickly and mercifully. most piteously, and at first I could not Suddenly a great idea occurred to me : think what was the matter with them, the cat had only one kitten, wrould she and then I saw the two little rabbits take another baby ? I slipped one of lying dead ! They had been killed by them into my pocket and took it to the their foster brothers and sisters. house. After this murder everybody said Puss was nursing her child in a basket “ but what else did you expect ! ” in the recesses of a cupboard in the

THE CAT, HER KITTEN, AND THE YOUNG RAT Another instance and an even stranger kitchen, and in this shadowy place I was case of a cat adopting a queer baby able to slip the little thing in without her happened when my puss brought up a seeing what I did ; she only purred young rat together with her kitten. contentedly, and appeared to wish me This was perhaps even more peculiar to stroke her. I waited anxiously for than the case of the rabbits, for cats some time, for I feared what would seem a rat’s natural foes. The beginning happen when she found out the trick of the matter was when a nest of young that had been played her; however, the rats were brought to me as food for my minutes fled by, and puss still purred tame owls. I thanked the man who contentedly, while the little rat crept had found them and carried the pot-full into her fur. A moment or two more and —they were put in a flower-pot—off to the small creature was sharing a good STRANGE FOSTER-MOTHERING 385 meal with the kitten ! The cat raised convinced that he did it properly; how­ herself, snuffed the small stranger all ever much he tried to get away from over, and began to lick him ! I was no her, she only held him the tighter, his longer afraid of what might happen, for squeaks were quite unregarded, as she no animal that has once washed a young licked him from head to foot, and it was creature will afterwards harm it. only when she at last considered him The little rat, now named “ Whiskers ” clean that he was allowed to escape, (because of the whiskers he would have whereupon he would sit up on his hind legs when grown up) became the cat’s and do it all again. His life was one long favourite “ kitten,” she made a cleaning !

THE CAT AND “ WHISKERS”

thoroughly spoilt child of him, and quite Strange as it seems to speak of a rat neglected her own baby. She would as being a delightful pet, one that was carry him about in her mouth (I was told of the common, too common, brown she would certainly eat him one day) species into the bargain, yet so and spent hours attending to his toilet, “ Whiskers ” became ; a more intelligent, much to poor “ Whiskers ” disgust, for docile, or affectionate creature no one as soon as he was old enough to sit up could have wished to meet with. But on his hind legs he showed his cleanly it is not of “ Whiskers’” various nature by undertaking his own washing characteristics I wish to speak—though operations. But mother cat was never many are the tales I could tell of his 386 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

doings during the two years I had him— A strange “ happy family ” I saw but rather of his relations with his once consisted of a dog and pigs. She adopted mother. As he grew up, and was a sheep dog, a rough, mongrelly, the kitten grew big, they became very long-haired creature, but a devoted playful, and had the wildest romps mother. She had been inconsolable together, till fearing an accident, I when her puppies were taken from her, found a home for the latter as soon as it and had wandered about everywhere in was able to leave its mother, so that search of them. In this way she visited “ Whiskers ” became an only child. the pigsties where a litter of little pigs The cat was now able to give him her had just been separated from their undivided attention. She treated him parent. They were squeaking for the sow, i just like a kitten, went out poaching the dog wanted her puppies. Next time on his behalf, brought home young the owner went to look at the youngsters rabbits, caught mice and field voles he found them being suckled by the dog.

THE DOG, WHO AFTER HER PUPPIES HAD BEEN REMOVED, ENDEAVOURED TO ADOPT A FAMILY OF PIGS —but never rats !—and laid them all at For a week or two she nursed these young “ Whiskers’ ’ ’ feet ! Of course she con­ pigs, and the farmer they belonged to, sidered him a kitten in all respects, so wishing for a record of the strange she expected him to eat flesh, and some­ occurrence, and knowing my interest in times he seemed all too ready to oblige such things, asked me whether I would her. However I generally confiscated like to take a photograph of the family ? these treasures. I was only too delighted, and set out Even when the rat was full-grown, gaily one morning armed with my and Puss had other family cares, she camera and anticipating little difficulty never forgot him, but was always ready in getting some photographs. Alas ! to visit his quarters, give him a friendly I little knew how piggishly piggish those lick, and perhaps bring him some thing small pigs meant to be, or their rooted she had caught; in one instance it was a objection to the camera ! I wasted no bird, for she was a great huntress. end of plates on them, and all to little

i STRANGE FOSTER-MOTHERING 387 or no purpose; out of the lot there is only came “ with tail erect, trotting towards one negative that gives a good enough him, and calling with little short inward print to send to the Editor of this notes of complacency, such as they use magazine, and I very much doubt towards their kittens, and something whether he will be able to reproduce it, gambolling after, which proved to be the though I am sending it in the hope he leveret that the cat had supported with may be able to do so. What the end her milk, and continued to support with of this family was I have never heard. great affection.” It is with cats that I have had most After reading this charming account I experience as foster mothers ; they thought I would try to get one of my are such devoted parents, and with a cats to do the same, for I had always little patience can be got to take care, as longed to have a pet hare. So the next I have already pointed out, of almost time the cat had kittens I begged all the

A CAT WITH A YOUNG FERRET

any motherless baby, though as Gilbert keepers and farmers of the neighbour­ White says, after discussing a case of a hood to keep a look out for a very young hare being reared by a cat, “ W hy so leveret. In a few days two were brought cruel and sanguinary a beast as a cat, to me, and greatly delighted I took them of the ferocious genus of Felis . . . . to the cat, never doubting they would should be affected with any tenderness accept her as a mother, though I did towards an animal which is its natural wonder whether she would take them. prey, is not easy to understand.” However, there was not the least trouble He goes on to describe in most touching with her, they were such sweet kittenish words the way the cat tended her leveret, little things that she never seemed to the care she took of it, and the evident doubt what they were. This was affection of the little thing for its pro­ delightful; I already saw in imagination tectress. To use his own words, the cat two big hares running about ! But I 388 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE had forgotten to take the leverets them­ other cases I have given, for there seems selves into calculation, and had no idea more connection between two flesh- what their behaviour was going to be eating animals than between one that nor the wonderful obstinacy of the tiny eats grass and another that earns its creatures. They would cuddle up to living by killing other creatures. puss, but nothing would induce them to In the same way it is quite feed. At first I thought hunger would comprehensible that a cat might adopt make them, but it did not, and then I a fox-cub, though perhaps not an every­ realized they would starve to death day occurrence. It came about through rather than suck the cat. I did all I some cubs being found in a big rabbit could to avert a tragedy, but nothing hole by some rabbit catchers. They put would save the two poor little mites. their ferrets into the bury without any

THE CAT, KITTEN, AND YOUNG FERRET FORM THIS FAMILY

I vowed I would never again have suspicion of what it contained, and when anything to do with leverets, that the no rabbits bolted, and their ferrets did whole thing was too tragic, but when not return, they only said that they had some time after I was offered one old “ got one in a corner, an’ won’er cornin’ enough to feed itself I accepted it, and back.” They dug them out to find it this succeeded well. It is now a great was a litter of very young cubs that had big hare and a most delightful pet—in been employing the ferrets. Only one short, he is sitting on my knees while I was left alive ! This poor little orphan write this article. was brought to me, “ Because you like A cat again was responsible for the sich things, miss.” up-bringing of a young ferret, but this What could I do but accept the poor does not appear so strange as some of the little baby, and such a baby too ? STRANGE FOSTER-MOTHERING 389

Round, furry, and dark—in short just At last she approached again, as if like a kitten. But at that time I had saying to herself, “ Can it possibly be a made no experiments as to what can be kitten after all ? ” Gradually she sniffed done with cats in the way of getting the cub all over again, this time it did them to be foster-mothers, and I only not make a sound, and gathering confi­ tried to give it some milk, but it was so dence she jumped up on to my knee, very small that this was most difficult ; lay down beside the baby, and began to it could not have been much more than lick it ; the cub wriggled close to her, seven days old, for it was quite blind, uttering its little whining cry as it did like a young kitten. Then somebody so, but she paid no attention this time— who had noticed the cat sniffing round the orphan had found a mother ! recollected her kittens had been taken The vixen herself could not have

from her but two days before and tended the cub more tenderly than Puss suggested her as a foster-mother. The did ; she was with him morning, noon, suggestion was quickly acted on. Puss and night, with the natural result he was called and the new baby shown her ; throve exceedingly, and became a very she smelt it all over, and seemed to be spoilt baby. Whenever the poor cat just deciding that it was one of her wanted to get away he would whine so missing kittens returned, but strangely piteously that she had to come back and transformed, when the little creature see he was in no trouble. When he was gave a peculiar whine, the cat started quiet again she would make a fresh start, back in great alarm ! What could the but the cries promptly began once more. creature be ? Not a kitten, for what This game the cub could keep up for cat ever heard a kitten make such a half-an-hour at a time. noise ! This cat was ready to brave any 390 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE dangers for her child, and woe to any her, you must treat her at all times with dog that came near him ; a fiend clad every consideration. It is no good pussy in fur, armed with the most terrible being a harried and hunted outcast for claws, and absolutely fearless, would fly the greater part of the year and then out, spring on his back and punish the expect her to settle down as a “ parlour unfortunate creature until he was ready boarder ” and rear any strange baby to go anywhere or do anything rather you chance to present her with, for she than venture again near the room where will not do it. No, a cat—be she ever the fury lived. so common a barn-door creature— must Everything went on well for some be well fed (which will not prevent her weeks until the cub was getting a big catching mice, for mousing is a question creature, and mother-cat thought he of sport with most cats) and looked required meat to eat. One ill-starred after ; never frightened or punished for day she decided he must have flesh, and trivial offences, then she will have such having somehow or other given him the complete confidence in her protectors slip she started off on a poaching that she never doubts anything they may expedition. Her fate was easily guessed do. Difficulties are more likely to be in a neighbourhood where game is met with in getting the small creature to strictly preserved, for she was never seen take to its new mother; however again. Poor Toby was motherless for tiny and helpless it may be it will a second time ! probably prove surprisingly obstinate All the family did their best for the and awkward to manage. Patience and little creature, but it was all in vain ; gentleness are the only remedies, but a he pined away, and a week later the end lot of the former may be required before came. Some eyes were not altogether the matter is brought to a satisfactory dry when it was realised it was all over, issue. If it will not take to its new for a more engaging or sweet little thing mother at once it is best to wait a few no one could have wished to meet with. hours until it is hungry, and then try I should certainly recommend anyone again. wanting a foster-mother for a young There is one point I should like to animal—if not too big a species—to try again draw attention to, and that is the and get a cat to undertake the business. danger (if some kittens are allowed to They are so affectionate and self- survive) of the kittens getting too rough sacrificing, having no thought for in their games with their bed-fellow and anything but their babies, so that as hurting it, as in the case of my young mothers they can not be beaten. Of rabbits. In short, I strongly advise course, if you want your cat to adopt homes being found for them as soon as any curious “ kitten ” you may offer they can support themselves. A FALCON HUNT IN ASIA MINOR

BY U. FORTESCUE

W e were staying in the house of Suliman There are no introductions in Turkey, Bey, deep in the heart of Asia Minor. so that we had to find out for ourselves Our host, a shrewd, kindly old Osmanlee, who our fellow-guests were. There was was one of the few survivals of the old the Bey on his white ass, the beast Dere Beys of these parts, tribal kings in for important personages and formal fact if not in name. He was so old- occasions; for the rider of a horse must fashioned that he looked on the fez as a still be the first to salute the rider of an modern and most obnoxious innovation, ass in the East. A couple of his sons, in and still clung to his snowy turban, and more European clothes and fez ; a flowing robes of rose and grey home-spun, Circassian Bey, tall and grave and hand­ home-dyed, and home-woven cloth. some, as is the almost universal case It was after an account of the open-air with the better born of his race ; his life which we led in England that he long, tightly-fitting tunic with its cart­ proposed a falcon hunt, evidently pleased ridge cases slung across his slender chest, at the thought of showing us something the high sheepskin cap on his head which which we had never seen before. all wear, and than which nothing more The day dawned fresh and sunny, an unsuited to the climate of this their ideal September morning among the second country could be imagined ; a Anatolian uplands. When my friend Kurdish gentleman in ordinary Turkish and I left the Haremlik, we found quite dress save for the many handkerchiefs a little crowd awaiting us at the foot of wound around his fez, one for every year the Selamlik stairs, for, like most Turkish of his age, and the arsenal of weapons in houses, the Bey’s Yaila (summer-house) his broad cummerbund. But for his was a rambling two-storied building, the costume he would have passed for a lower story chiefly storerooms and typical John Bull, with his ruddy fresh stables, the upper floor containing complexion, and shrewd blue eyes; an the reception rooms. The Harem was Arab agent for the Mecca pilgrimage, in a separate wing connected with the touring the country for the purpose of main house by a passage which none making a list of the prospective pilgrims, but the servants and the Bey used. and also acting as a sort of revivalist 392 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE preacher on the way. Sinewy and lithe Yuzgat, for his wife and myself. We as the Circassian, but dark and eagle- women followed the sensible custom out eyed, he sat his little Arab in his flowing here, and rode astride ; the horses of white burnous and green turban. the East are unused to a side saddle, Several Turkish gentlemen from the neigh­ and certainly neither of us grudged them bourhood, and a string of servants, among or ourselves the difference in comfort them the falconer with his three hooded on a long day’s ride. falcons sitting on a stick fastened across As for our companions, the Turkish his saddle bows, and the man with the dress has to be seen on horseback to be dogs — mongrel Persian greyhounds, appreciated, for it was meant for a race slender and delicate in their warm coats. of horsemen, and the comically baggy The Osmanlees, for they do not use trousers fall into handsome folds in the the word Turk in the sense of race, were saddle. all mounted on pacers, sitting in their They were much amused at our idea broad armchair-like saddles and short that there was any particular side from stirrups—little squares of metal, one which to mount. “ The Osmanlee knows corner of which serves as a spur; neither right nor left on a horse,” the Circassian on his own peculiar saddle they quoted, as we started off in which can never give a sore back, almost high good humour. Hares were what stood in his circular stirrups, his reins, we were after, it appeared, and my friend which were mere leather thongs studded and I had some qualms as to how the with silver bosses, glittering in the light. day would turn out. Visions of maimed They are the best horsemen—and also and mangled little bodies rose before us, horse thieves— in all Asia Minor, these but we found the sport no more cruel gentle, courteous brigands, who, how­ than fox-hunting, and far less so than ever, have the saving grace of riding stag-hunting, for out of five hares well, and using their horses kindly. started only two were killed, and that I, too, had bought a Circassian horse, represented the usual luck, we were and had kept to their saddle and all of told. the trappings save their bit, which is The Bey led the way on his little ass, cruel in unaccustomed hands ; for this with which none of the horses could keep I had substituted a bush bridle, though up, save the two Circassians, and they Kamysh, cleverest and most willing of only at the trot. comrades, paid far more attention to After a little, the rolling plains grew the pressure of the knees, or a prod from steeper, the Bey exchanged his mount my boot, than he did to any other for a horse and we pushed on at a gallop. guidance. I am afraid his mouth was The ground grew more and more broken ; not his strong point, but if so, this was nothing but the form of horseshoe they his only failing. use out here saved the horses from We three Europeans, two women and constantly picking up stones. But they a man, felt quite out of keeping in the were all shod with circular metal discs charming picture around us, for we were having a little hole in the centre for in karki, though our boots at any rate ventilation. They are the cause of furnished one gay spot of colour, for endless trouble, as almost every horse’s they were of canary-yellow soft leather, feet fester from their constant use, but with tassels on their turned-up toes ; they are unfortunately a necessity on but notwithstanding their somewhat this stony ground. startling appearance, I have yet to wear The scenery had grown savage and more comfortable foot-gear than these grand by now. We rode along deep Kurdish riding boots, which the Professor ravines cutting down apparently to the had picked up at our nearest town of very heart of the earth, through wild A FALCON HUNT IN ASIA MINOR 393 and terrible gorges by a path slippery had described a loop near the ground with spray, about three feet broad at and swung himself up again high above best, with a rock wall on one side and a us, to swoop down once more ; he sheer precipice on the other. I suggested could do nothing however but hover over that a rail in some of the worst parts the spot flapping his wings angrily, while would be useful. The answer was a start the dogs tried to force their way through of surprise, and a query in a shocked the dense branches. They were called voice as to use of a rail, seeing that off after a few minutes, as they were “ God was the only rail which could evidently too late. That hare was safe. avail a man in the hour of danger.’' The Bey called to his bird, which was I felt crushed, and decided that it was his especial pet, he told us. It circled “ up to me ” as a Christian to sit tight, for a moment over him, then, as the shut my eyes, and make no more falconer flung a piece of raw meat for complaints. it on the ground, it alighted, and was After an hour’s riding we got out again allowed to feed for a few minutes, while on more open plains, and here the Bey we fetched our breath and breathed our took one of the falcons himself on a horses. We had but a short pause, and stoutly-gloved hand, slipping back its then the hood was slipped over the bird’s hood on every rise, so as to let it see the head, he was taken up by the Bey, who country, while the men and dogs hunted avoided handling him as much as about for traces of their prospective possible, and we rode on again, while quarry. Something was noted which the men and hounds tried to find another seemed to promise well, the hounds were hare. unleashed, and we straggled out into a The Bey told us that he only used long line. Evidently there was no rule females for hunting, as the birds were here about not overriding hounds, for larger, stronger, and keener-sighted than half the time they were under our their mates. All his falcons had been horses’ legs as they doubled backwards caught young, for he believed that birds and forwards trying to get on the scent. born in captivity lost their fierceness. Suddenly they all gave tongue and Even as it was, the difficulty was to darted off, we after them with shouts of avoid their getting too fat for hunting “ Bismillah ! ” which rang an echo from purposes, and sitting on the trees and the hills and rocks around. The pace rocks for a rest, instead of getting to was fast and furious, the little brown work. streak of fur far ahead of us turned and According to all the men present, if a twisted for its life, and we who had so bird were handled on the wings or tail often watched the graceful little creatures feathers, it lost its spirit, and became of at play of a summer evening in English no more use for sport than a barnyard woods, hoped that he would win through fowl. Also I was begged not to eye the yet. bird so closely again while its hood was Meantime, the Bey loosed his falcon, off and it was near me on the the bird swung himself up into the cobalt ground feeding, for this, too, they all sky, fluttered for a second high in the firmly believed was bad for the bird. air, as though to get his aim and then It was nearly an hour before another shot down like an arrow on his prey, only hare was routed out, and the falcon was to miss it, however, for the hare had loosed by slipping off its hood and doubled quickly; near at hand were shaking the back of the hand on which some rhododendron trees and bushes, it was perched. Soaring up, it swooped for them he made, and disappeared under down, struck its sharp beak into the their branches just in time, for the juncture of head and spine, and the falcon, without pausing in his flight, hare dropped dead. The falconer slit 394 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

up the fur on the shoulders, and the late noon, and we decided that it was bird was allowed to gorge himself for a time to call a halt. We made for some moment or two. The dogs approached Yuruck tents close to us for our mid-day for their share, but, turning on them, meal. The tents were of thick felt the fierce little bird gave one savage peck smeared with beeswax, and stretched at their noses which made them retreat over circular frames, which keeps them in howling and bleeding discomfiture. comparatively cool. The food was It was not a pretty sight, and we were delicious. Bowls of kaimak (thick glad when the falconer hooded it, slipped buffalo clotted cream) with chappaties, his hand under it, and we could ride on and a chicken, which the hospitable once more. In all five hares were owner shot for us much to our concealed started, but all save two managed to amusement, boiled in the pilaf. reach one of the clumps of trees which We women had been invited into the meant salvation from the falcon at any tents, but we preferred the fresh air and rate, and a check to the dogs. shade outside, for wandering nomad’s The Bey thought two hares were tents are apt to leave painful memories sufficient for any morning’s work, so he of the minutes spent in them. The decided to change into an eagle hunt. A stalwart weather-beaten dames served fresh falcon was taken, and we kept our us with much speculation as to who we eyes open for any signs of the Golden Eagle were, but as neither of us could under­ of these parts. The only ones I ever stand the other’s pronunciation it was saw in Asia Minor were a poor-looking confined to guesswork. lot, and by no means bore out the After the meal and a nap, the men picture their name called up, for they joined us at the Professor’s request, and were very ugly and mangy looking, we all sat smoking and chatting together, This time the falcon was not hooded, going over the morning’s runs as is the but sat on the Bey’s hand, glancing way the world over. about him with his piercing eyes. After We rested till it was time for the mid­ a prolonged stare up into the sky, he afternoon prayer, the Bey sticking a rose and made off to our right. We soon knife in the ground and judging the time saw the other bird; and watched the by its shadow, as his forbears had done fierce fight waged over our heads. Round for generations, rather than consult his and round the birds flew, apparently watch. When the shadow was twice the equally matched, for first one, then the knife, he took the Kibla (the direction other was beaten off, the falcon trying of Mecca) with his compass, and one of to rise above his enemy in order to deal the men poured the water for his his death blow, the eagle on the other ablutions from a little jug, then, as there hand trying to get below the falcon to was no Muezzin near, he called the rip him up with his beak. Finally familiar formula to the four quarters of the falcon retired discomfited to a the earth. His men meanwhile preparing neighbouring rock, the eagle followed ; themselves in their turn, by slipping off but the Bey, who was galloping on the their shoes, rolling up their sleeves, and plain beneath them, took a quick aim, spreading out their cloaks to serve as fired, and shot the eagle dead. A good praying mats when they had finished •shot, from a galloping horse at a darting the prescribed ablutions. The Yuruck bird. men joined the Bey’s party, we Christians “ Afreem, Afreem ! ” we all shouted. withdrew a little way off, and then all (“ Well done ! ” ) The falconer recalled together the little band recited the short the falcon but this time gave him no and simple Arabic sentences in praise of food, and the eagle was picked up. God, which, with a few verses from the By now the sun was broiling ; it was Koran, and a surprising amount of A FALCON HUNT IN ASIA MINOR 395 gymnastics, make up each of the five out of sight while an attendant stands daily set devotions. by to pour fresh from a jug. With two short nods and blessings to However, we preferred our tubs to the the angels who stand on either side hammam, and refreshed, though terribly o f a praying man, all was quickly over, sunburnt, we joined the Buyuck Hanum the men slipped on their shoes, took up (chief lady), the Bey’s mother—who, their cloaks, and went off to fetch the together with his grandmother, and his horses. Meantime, we had found the sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts, women not averse to payment for and his one wife, made up the ladies of indeed they were bitterly poor, and the his Harem— at her evening meal in the usual words, “ This is not in payment, Harem garden. A meal to which we did but a token of friendship,” sufficed to full justice throughout its six courses of salve their pride. alternately sweet and savoury, beginning We mounted to the accompaniment with soup and ending with pilaf, as every of good wishes, which we loudly self-respecting Turkish dinner should. requested God to return to them, and Neither then nor later did a hare made our way back to the Yaila and the figure in the menu ; it was evidently Haremlik, where we found the wooden hunted for its skin, and to keep the tubs, for which we had begged early in numbers down. our acquaintanceship, already filled with We went to bed soon after the meal, steaming water, and the bewildering my friend to the rooms she and her array of towels to which Turks are husband had set apart for them accustomed. These tubs, originally used between the two houses, and I to mine, for the pickling of pasterma (dried strips room, which, as the “ unmarried daughter of beef) were a constant source of of an absent father,” opened out of the amusement to the slave women. They Buyuck Hanum’s own apartment. I had never heard of people washing except had hardly tucked the mosquito curtains under running water, and the idea seemed around me before I was asleep, to dream hardly clean to them, for every Turkish that the Bey had arranged a tournament basin has a perforated sort of double in our honour and that we were back in bottom which lets the soapy water flow the days of chivalry and armour. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE JUDGING AT THE INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency

THE HORSE SHOW SEASON

BY ARTHUR \V. CO ATE N

It is rather curious that at a time when the swifter work of the motor has not the harness horse is passing into com­ surpassed. parative disuse for the best class of 1 We have to marvel at the somewhat carriage work, harness classes at our paradoxical circumstance that the har­ horse shows are apparently as popular as ness horse has maintained his value in ever they were. Entries are good at the spite of having been well nigh ousted best shows, and the public display plenty from the roads by the motors. Try to of interest in the judging. Similarly buy a really high-class carriage horse with the four-in-hand classes. The to-day, and you will find that you have speedy departure of coaches from our to give as much for him as you did for roads was predicted when the motor-cars the same type of animal a decade ago. began their rapid advance into favour. Mr. Robert Whitworth, one of the best- Yet coaching to-day, instead of being known Yorkshire breeders of harness dead, seems to have as many supporters horses, tells me that he still owns about as it had ten years ago. The remarkable a hundred hackneys. “ I breed to sell turn-out for the Marathon contest to and do not show much,” he adds, “ and, the Richmond Show last summer showed strange to say, I find the harness horse very clearly that four-in-hand driving trade very good.” In other directions possesses a charm for many which even the market for good harness horses is THE HORSE SHOW SEASON 397

by no means so flaccid as many people nothing. It is probably because those two suppose it to be. One would have processes have already begun that the expected the Hackney Horse Society to price of good carriage horses has not be badly hit by motor competition, collapsed. The demand has decreased which undoubtedly has affected that and the supply with it. institution to a certain extent ; but no I noticed a significant movement at sign of real decay either in the breed or the Hackney Society’s recent show. A in the society could be observed at their special effort was made to impress show at Islington early in March, when upon visitors the value of the Hackney there was an entry of 572 and the prize- as a begetter of riding horses. Evidently money amounted to £1,844. the hope is that what is being lost in

“ BRAMBLE,” ONE OF THE BLACK FLEMISH MARES SENT BY THE KING TO THE INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW LAST YEAR Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency

One can scarcely believe that the harness may be made good with saddle hackney will continue to hold its own in work. Sir Walter Gilbey declares that view of the force of mechanism arrayed to employ the Hackney as the sire of against it on the road. No doubt a saddle horses is only restoring him to number of good harness horses will his ancient use. “ For hundreds of always be required at home and abroad, years,” remarks this authority, “ the but the most serene optimist cannot Hackney was the road horse ; in other imagine that it will be as profitable to words, he furnished the sole means of breed them in future as it has been in journeying in the days before the making the past. One supposes that fewer of of roads rendered wheel traffic possible the type will be produced in England, for travellers. The best of English road and the import trade will dwindle to horses were the trotters bred in Norfolk,

n o . c c x i i i . v o l . x x x v i . — April, 1913 AA 398 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE and the Norfolk trotters, as everyone people who sold their hacks to go in for knows, were the ancestors of our modem motor-cars found the lack of physical Hackneys.’' Proceeding in this strain exercise which this involved was doing Sir Walter makes a plausible case for the their health no good. Thus a large utility of the Hackney blood for riding. proportion of those folk, while keeping He claims that foreign breeders under­ their cars, have bought new riding horses. stand the value of the Hackney as a You will find that riding masters are busy saddle horse sire much better than our nearly everywhere, and you get a very breeders at home do. One thing is clear idea that in this department at certain, that any attempt to introduce least the motors have done the horse

A TYPICAL SCENE AT THE INTERNATIONAL SHOW READY FOR THE JUMPING COMPETITIONS the Hackney blood into the hunting field trade no permanent injury. In the would arouse a good deal of opposition. hunting-held, of course, the motor-car Yet for breeding park hacks there has made little appreciable difference, would seem to be plenty of scope for the excepting that people find it easier to best of hackney blood. Anyone who rides get to distant meets than it was in the in the Row will know that the hack has old days, and therefore fields are bigger not been seriously affected by motor-cars. than ever. On the contrary, I think it not too much Shire horses, too, are unaffected by to assert that more hacks are ridden now the antagonism of mechanical traction. than was the case ten years ago. Many Here again is something of an anomaly, THE HORSE SHOW SEASON 399 for on hundreds of well-appointed farms the driving of a free-actioned roadster you see motors doing work which cart is a great pleasure, and there remain horses formerly did. Yet farmers still thousands of the public who delight in find that to breed Shires is one of the seeing a good harness class in the ring. most dependable ways of making a con­ The owner of show harness horses can sistent profit. The membership of the enjoy something more than the mere Shire Horse Society runs to over four satisfaction of driving them in an thousand, and I do not think I ever attempt to win recognition in the ring. saw stronger classes of young heavy A well-known exhibitor has remarked : horses than were brought out at the “ People often say to me, especially my

l a d y b l u n t ’ s e a s t e r n s t a l l i o n , “ b e r k ,” a t o l y m p i a Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency Royal Agricultural Hall at the Society’s hunting friends, * I can’t see what fun annual show at the end of February. you get out of driving round the ring ’ ; When a two-year-old sire realised 4,100 but it is not the actual driving that is guineas at public auction, as Sir Walpole the most interesting part— it is buying Greenwell’s Champion’s Goalkeeper did them in the rough, unbroken state, break­ early in February, there cannot be much ing them to harness, and educating them wrong with the breed. to the show ring. All this is the inter­ Horse shows will help to keep the esting part if one does it oneself. The harness breeds going for a long time. more difficult the horse is to train the There are still plenty of people to whom more pleased one is if the day should

AA 2 400 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE come when he can stand at the top of To send a horse and carriage and man his class. If I were to employ a pro­ for two days to the Richmond Show on | fessional to do all this for me, more firsts the chance of winning £10 is scarcely would probably come my way, but that remunerative ; indeed, you can quite would not amuse me. I prefer doing it understand that even if you do win, you myself, and when the day comes that I will be at a loss. The prizes given for cannot do it I shall give up showing’ jumping are out of all proportion to the That is unquestionably the right sporting prizes that are awarded in the harness spirit, and as it holds good with the classes, and in my opinion the jumping majority of exhibitors, there is no danger classes are not more attractive than the of harness classes disappearing from show harness classes.” Naturally everyone j schedules yet awhile. will not follow Mr. Foster in the last There is, by the way, a feeling among opinion he expresses, though the point

COSTERS AT OLYMPIA THE WINNING “ TURN-OUT”

exhibitors in harness classes that they he raises may be worth the attention of do not come in for their proper proportion Show Committees. Apart from this of prize money. The suggestion they question, the Mel-Valley exhibitor con­ make is that the jumping competitions siders that the Richmond and Olympic are usually allocated too much cash at shows are managed exceedingly well. I the expense of the other sections of the find that the same opinion is held by the shows. That at all events is the tenour great majority of exhibitors. At Olympia of a note I have received from Mr. the long-drawm-out judging of hacks and William Foster, the highly successful hunters, though deeply interesting to exhibitor. “ If the Show Committees,” those who can closely follow the judges, he writes, “ could see their way to in­ has often become a trifle tedious to crease the prizes in the harness classes, three-fourths of the onlookers. I under­ it would, no doubt, add to the entries. stand that a change is to be introduced THE HORSE SHOW SEASON 401 this year by having most of the judging men can do a great deal towards pro­ done in the morning and parading win­ moting the success of the show with ners in the evening. which they are connected. Here is an Country shows are, as a rule, not so interesting note on this point from Mr. well managed as those at Olympia and H. Faudel Phillips, whose fine hacks are Richmond, and it would be demanding well-known to show-goers :—“ As an too much to expect all displays to exhibitor and a member of many shows, possess the splendid arrangements seen my opinion is that Committees of Shows at those two exceptional shows. How to cannot be too careful in the selection of make shows more attractive to the public their Stewards. I think few people and exhibitors alike is a difficult problem, realise what a great difference good and one that is greatly exercising the mind stewarding makes to exhibitors and to

JUDGING LADIES’ HACKS AT OLYMPIA Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency of those who are responsible for many of the general success of a show. An ener­ the fixtures throughout the country. getic Steward who can keep his ring “ I am afraid country shows are on the always in full swing and is always down grade,” declares Mr. R. Whitworth, working with the best of feeling with his “ and I do not know how they can be Shed Stewards and exhibitors can, in made to attract better. The jumping my opinion, do more to make a success and harness classes draw spectators the of things than the bringing-in of some best, and local shows often do not en­ wonderful new-fangled class or display. courage the latter classes enough.” I suppose that one cannot deny that the A great deal depends, of course, upon English public like the jumping best, whether Show Committees are fortunate and there again we touch the question enough to get the right type of Stewards of Stewards, for a well-run jumping com­ to keep things briskly moving. Such petition is nice to watch, and a badly-run 402 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE one with long pauses, etc., is the most £16,000, with the four-year-old stallion boring thing in the world.” Mr. Faudel Hammurabi, which he bred himself with Phillips adds that he thinks it would be the object of putting him in the pace very good and only a fair thing if shows and action classes at the English shows. did more for their jumpers in the way The type of trotter which Hammurabi of stabling. It is not difficult or very represents is more showy than the expensive to run up an extra row of American trotter, and has never been stalls, yet we find that at many shows seen at the shows in England. Mr. the jumpers have no proper accommo­ Winans intends to show Brassos S. dation. (record 2.16 for one mile) and Hugo We were badly in want of some new (record 2.15) together, and he thinks trotting blood for the pace and action they will make the fastest pair in this

MR. WALTER WINANS’ TINY PONY, “ MICROBE,” WITH HIS FRIEND, “ PRINCE VASSO,” THE GREAT DANE Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency classes at Richmond and elsewhere, so country. Last autumn he himself drove it is satisfactory to learn that Mr. Walter a very fast four-mile race in Vienna with Winans has just imported several of his Brassos S. and his mare Lazuk as a pair. Hungarian-bred racing trotters. It may It may be added that Brassos S. and not be generally known that he breeds Hugo, which are both stallions, have trotters at Presburg in Hungary, having won thousands of pounds in racing on a stud of about thirty-five mares and the Continent, so their appearance here stallions, which he races in Hungary and will be decidedly interesting. Austria. Nor is it by any means an Mr. Winans regrets that classes for unprofitable enterprise. Last year Mr. pace and action under 15-hands high W. Winans won the big race of the year, have been dropped from horse shows. the Hunyadi Prize, worth no less than “ You may remember,” he says, “ how THE HORSE SHOW SEASON 403 my champion pony trotter (record, 2.19 practically ridge and furrow—rough —the best in the world for ponies) used grass fields with no banking up.” not only to win in the under 15-hands In regard to the arrangements of other class, but also in the class over 15-hands exhibitors, Miss Sylvia Brocklebank, against big horses. Now that the whose team always make a good show smaller class is abolished in all shows, and can count on a popular reception the under 15-hands ponies have no when driven by the keen sportswoman chance to be shown.” Many who have who owns them, tells me that she hopes seen the splendid small trotter Little to exhibit in most of the four-in-hand

“ TINY,” A PONY BOUGHT BY THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND FOR PRINCESS JULIANA Photograph bv Sport & General Press A gency

Tobe doing great things round the ring classes at Olympia, Richmond, and at will be glad to know that he is still as the Royal Show, which this year wrill be bright as ever, though now very old, held at Bristol. She will also show in well over twenty years. Mr. Winans tandem and double harness classes. has a good word to say for the rings at Optimistic, her handsome grey gelding, Olympia and Richmond, which are in will again lead the tandem, in which he happy contrast to many rings. “ It is and the bay Illumination were very a shame,” he avers, “ to expect good successful last year, winning a first for horses to be driven on what is novice tandems in a strong class 404 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE at Olympia, where they also took a single harness horse championship last second in the open classes, and were year at Islington. Argo and Coronet, placed third for the Lowther Cup, a winners of the Vanderbilt Challenge Cup competition open only to tandems that for the best tandem at the Royal Show had taken a first or second prize at the at Doncaster, will be shown in tandem show. Miss Brocklebank’s pair also and double harness, and other good secured the gold challenge cup at Dublin exhibits from Mr. Simpson’s stud will as well as high honours at the Royal Show. be the brown pony Chocolate Soldier, They are sure to take a lot of beating in the best pony stallion in harness at tandem classes this year. Islington last year, and the bay pony Mr. Paul Hoffmann, who, by the way, Gay Lad, a first prize winner at Dublin.

JUDGE MOORE S BOXES AT THE INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency

has just been elected a director of the Mr. Robert Whitworth tells me that Richmond Show, proposes this year for Richmond and Olympia he will have again to exhibit his pair of dark chestnuts a hunter called Cairnhill by Walmsgate. Rosen Cavalier and Hawthorn Prince, He won some distinction at northern both by His Majesty. They did well shows last season, and is expected to last year at Olympia, Dublin, Bath, and make his mark in the south. He has a elsewhere. The same exhibitor will also remarkably good four-year-old Hackney show a new and bigger pair of dark mare known as Towthorpe Ophelia by chestnuts by Polonius and Goldfinder. Beckingham Squire. She much resembles Mr. T. W. Simpson will be exhibiting the famous old Ophelia, and her owner again at the best shows. He still has thinks her the best mare he has ever the chestnut gelding Argo, winner of the owned. Last year all of his Hackney THE HORSE SHOW SEASON 405 mares with one exception had foals, in the general popularity of jumping twenty-three having been mated. This competitions this year. They will take is a fine record, and speaks well for the their usual important place in the stud horses Polonius, Edemynag, and programme at Olympia. One was sorry Beckingham Squire. I have already to see last year that more of our own mentioned that Mr. Whitworth still finds officers who competed are still some the harness horse trade very good, but way behind the best of their foreign it is perhaps significant to observe that competitors in respect to all-round form he is now going in more for bloodstock over the jumps at Olympia, and we have breeding. He has ten very good mares yet to gain a victory either in the at his stud farm near Halifax by such King Edward Cup or the King George sires as Gallinule, Ayrshire, Desmond, Cup. The quality of horses ridden Marco, Sundridge, and Amphion. by English officers in the jumping

PRACTISING AT OLYMPIA WELL OVER THE GATE ! Photograph by W. A. Rouch

In the hack classes we shall again find competitions, taking them as a whole, Mr. H. Faudel Phillips with a strong cannot compare with the high-class string at the big shows. These will be animals of real hunter type which are led by his last year’s favourites, The sent from the Continent to jump at the Chocolate Solider and Tarentella. The International Show. Happily some former had a wonderful season last year, enthusiasts like Lieut. Geoffrey Brooke being champion at Richmond and at the and Colonel Kenna have been able to Royal, also taking thirteen first and school their horses up to the high second prizes. Tarentella has been very Continental standard, and we may see nearly at the top of all classes for ponies a further improvement this summer. A of her inches during the last two seasons. notable triumph for England was achieved One cannot foresee any falling-off at Olympia last year by Lieut. Brooke 4C6 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE when he won the Daily Mail Cup tale to tell. Having seen many Conti­ and £100 on Combined Training. In nental officers riding in steeplechases I doing so he defeated fairly and squarely am not at all sure that our superiority all the best of the Continental representa­ in the open would be so pronounced as tives, and came in for a reception such is generally supposed. Anyway, it was as few other show winners can ever have pleasant to find the English represen­ received. In the applause that greeted tatives in better form than usual at his success was a note of the crowd’s Olympia last June. In point of fact, satisfaction, even relief, that a British when the prize-list is reviewed it is found officer had at last done something that we did by no means badly. In the substantial at the show in honour of the competitions over the whole course, open oldcountry. to the world, Mr. F. W. Foster, the

THE TEAM OF RUSSIAN OFFICERS, WINNERS OF THE KING EDWARD VII GOLD CUP IN 1912 Photograph by W. A. Rouch It would be ridiculous to make too Derbyshire exhibitor, divided first and much of successes achieved in what the second prizes with M. D. Le Vionnois, of Kaiser once witheringly described as Antwerp ; Lieut. T. Lawrence, the “ jumping in a house,” but no visitor to riding master of the 18th Hussars, and Olympia can have failed to admire the Colonel Paul Kenna— both of them V.C. remarkably fine horsemanship of the men—were among the next best seven. majority of the foreign officers and the The entry numbered 283. In other perfection with which their horses are classes with equally large entries, horses trained. Critics aver that if our officers belonging to Colonel Kenna, Mr. W. were to meet their foreign competitors Trail, Messrs. J. and T. Glencross, Mr. over a natural country or over a steeple­ W. Winans, Miss Mona Dunn, Messrs. chase course there would be a different T. and H. Ward, Capt. M. Crawshay, and THE HORSE SHOW SEASON 407

Lieut. T. A. Sebag-Montefiore, all “ got officer, is held at present by the Belgians, into the mone}^” By the way, Mr. Tom who will certainly defend their honours. Glencross has just dissolved partnership The King Edward VII. Gold Cup, for from his brother, and now has Blink jumping over the course by teams of Bonny, Kitty, and the bay gelding three officers of the same nationality, is Tradesman, the last of whom he bought held by Russia. Last June the English at Tattersall’s for 1,450 guineas. He is team were placed third to Russia and a high jumper, the other two being France. The French will be particularly round-the-course performers. anxious to win the trophy again, as they It is pleasant to think that these already have two successes to their credit jumping competitions have done some and a third win will give them absolute amount of practical good. They have possession. Now that the war with Turkey enabled the officers of most of the chief in Tripoli is over the Italians have

HAUTE ECOLE RIDING AT SAUMUR LA COURBETTE Photograph by Fr. Voelcker, Saumur armies in the world to meet together in promised to send a team to the Inter­ friendly rivalry. Warm friendships have national Show. Possibly Austria will be been formed by this means. Competitors represented, so that what with Canadians, have been able to study the riding French, Russians, Belgians, and our own methods of other countries and perhaps men, the competitions promise to be to profit by the experience thus acquired. thoroughly cosmopolitan. Horses have been bought and sold Visitors to the International Show are among the riders of various nations. promised a real treat in the shape of a Altogether, a general entente cordiale has riding display by a French military team been promoted, and one hopes that the from Saumur. Last summer our neigh­ common interest in the horse will long bours gave an attractive exhibition of produce that happy international effect. the haute ecole, but I hear that this time The King George V. Gold Cup, for we shall have something to remember jumping the course by one military for a long time. Certain French officers 408 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE have been practising all the year in their from Hampton Court to Olympia. This most advanced evolutions with a view competition is intended for genuine road to appearing to the best advantage at coaches, and there have been complaints Olympia. Unless any European com­ in the past that light private coaches, plications intervene, a display by a specially painted for the purpose, have Russian team from the St. Petersburg been used in some cases, much to the Cavalry School may also be expected. disadvantage of the real stage coaches | Every year Mr. Frank Euren, the very in regard to wreight. In future, com­ able and hard-working Secretary, and peting coaches must weigh at least the Directors of the Show endeavour to 23 cwt. unloaded, inclusive of the usual secure some “ star ” event rather outside appointments of a road coach. It will the ordinary run of the show. Last year, be greatly to the advantage of the Show for example, the highly interesting dis­ that it does not clash with Ascot, its play of many different breeds of horses date being from June 20 to July 1. was organised and proved to be highly Richmond Show comes very con­ acceptable to the crowd. This time veniently on the Friday and Saturday arrangements are being made for twenty between the Epsom and Ascot meetings. Arabs from Algiers to give their remark­ This is undoubtedly the most popular able riding tour de force known as the open-air horse show in England, and the Fantasia. great crowds which assembled in the Old All this indicates that the Executive Deer Park last year have caused some of the International are making a well- important and much-needed improve­ sustained effort to keep their hold upon ments to be made in the way of public favour. This is shown, too, by increased accommodation. Two new their decision to bring down the price of stands and a considerably enlarged lawn, seats all round. It will be possible to get extending half-way round the spacious a capital place for one shilling and up­ ring, are innovations which are sure to wards. The Society, although a limited be immensely appreciated by visitors. I company, is not run with the object of have seen no more imposing sight at any paying dividends, and nothing is spared horse show than the big Richmond ring in the endeavour to popularise the Show. last year packed from end to end with A gorgeous new scheme of decorative coaches just arrived from competing in effect will again make Olympia beautiful. the Marathon. It wras a spectacle to The prize-money amounts to no less than gladden the eye of every lover of horses, £12,000, not many changes on the who might well accept it as an assurance schedule having been made. It is inter­ that Britain’s affection for its horses is esting to note that a new condition has not on the wane even in these times of been imposed in the Coaching Marathon flying machines and motor-cars. DIANA AND HER DOGS

BY MRS. STUART MENZIES.

C o n s i d e r i n g how many women there to be successful, must be carefully con­ are suffering from acute attacks of want sidered. It is an occupation eminently of occupation, how many sitting with suitable to women, with their more their hands folded in their laps bemoaning gentle hands, tact, and sympathy. A the dull colourlessness of their lives and well-trained dog is not only a great want of £ s. d., I wonder more of them treasure and joy, but will fetch a long do not show a little enterprise, a little price. initiative. Why not take up seriously the The training of sporting dogs is a training and breaking of sporting dogs ? subject on which I can “ enthuse” at great It is a delightful occupation, and most length, and if any woman so inclined will remunerative. Many squires with little carefully follow my advice, I will without farms on their hands, or paying hesitation undertake to make her practically no rent, could turn them to successful. good account by making them into train­ If you are training with a view to ing kennels, their daughters and wives selling your pupils, you must teach them acting as keepers and trainers. by hard and fast rules, otherwise when More dogs have been spoilt by keepers’ you sell them they will be nervous and rough handling than they have made, stupid with their new masters through so few understand or care for them. not comprehending what is required of Amongst the many I have known, I them, therefore in this case adhere cannot remember one who had what I strictly to all the accepted and acknow­ consider sufficient patience— so much of ledged words of command, such as that virtue is required ! It may take “ Toho ! ” “ Heel! ” “ Downcharge ! ” you two or three seasons before you feel or “ Drop ! ” “ Dead ! ” “ Seek ! ” your pupil is quite perfect. “ ’Ware Sheep ! ” or “ ’ware ” anything It is really very simple, no great as the case mav be, all of which I will experience is necessary, but you must explain. have an even temper, and judgment, On the other hand, if only training for remembering that dogs are like children, my own use, I find “ No ! ” spoken very easily frightened and thereby ruined clearly and firmly answers quite as well for life. Like us each has a character as, if not better than, “ Toho ! ” and a temperament, which, if you wish especially when running riot. “ Bad 410 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE dog ! ” with the accent on the “ bad,” great deal with you ; they learn so much when making mistakes and disobedient ; more readily when they know and trust “ Good dog ! ” with the accent on the you. Whatever happens, keep their “ good’ when working well, but lacking confidence, be friends at all times, with energy, or when not quartering ground firmness on your part, without shouting, properly ; this, with a wave of your arm and if possible without whip. Stop your in the direction you wish him to work, lessons before the pupil is tired and will inspire him to fresh deeds of ardour. weary, letting the end be a caress and Space will not allow me to be very praise. exhaustive, so I will only to-day consider Teach them fasting— I mean the dogs, the breaking of the Liver and White not you ! The principle is sound that, Spaniel, and the Retriever. when you can’t win you must wink, but The former I recommend as the most do not let the dog see the ‘‘ wink ! ” useful all-round dog, though there are There is a certain dignity to be kept up several varieties, the general favourites in pleasure as well as business, which being the Cocker and the Sussex. dogs are very quick to understand ; The Cocker is rather small for they learn to watch your face and read retrieving heavy game, but if for your it very quickly. The least wavering or own use, you will find his love of work, inattention when they are sidling off to happy, cheery disposition (which is what do something they know is wrong, leaves makes him so popular), amply make up lasting bad results. for his lack of strength in retrieving. “ Yes ” to-day, and “ no ” to-morrow The Clumber Spaniel is a handsome will spoil any dog. They cannot grasp dog and useful, but not so well fitted for the circumstances that alter the cases, a long day as the Cocker or Sussex ; he so be firm and uniform ; once “ no ” is slower, heavier, and more difficult to always “ no.” break. If you are going to breed your own A good Spaniel is useful all the year shooting dogs be careful in choosing the round. The Irish Water Spaniel is a parents. You will have to spend a little hard-bitten, workmanlike little fellow, money in securing them of good working able to stand any amount of wet and the strain. I have a great liking for a cross­ longest day, but is out of fashion for bred. The most useful dog I ever had was anything but wild fowling, partly, I a cross between a retriever and a water think, because he has a harder mouth spaniel. Nothing tired him, and if I had than the others. spoken Hindustani to him I believe he The easiest to teach is a Retriever, would have understood me. But though for your own use he is not unfortunately cross-breds are no use necessary if you have a well-trained after the first generation. spaniel; but I always like to have one In selecting puppies from a litter, with me, partly because I am fond of choose one that is bright and playful, them, and partly because it gives a sort showing no signs of nervousness at un­ of finishing touch—you feel happier— expected and strange noises. You will, it has much the same effect as a glass of course, choose the strongest and of old liqueur brandy after a good healthiest. Begin their first lesson as soon dinner—blends and makes all perfect ! as possible, the sooner the better, by Nothing is more annoying than to teaching them to “come to heel.” This have a badly-broken dog in the field, they soon learn if you keep repeating causing irritation, bad-temper, and the words, and make them stay behind profound language. Therefore, I say, you by the movement of your hand, and train your own, begin with them very by holding out your whip. young, quite puppies, and have them a Next teach them “ to kennel up.” A DIANA AND HER DOGS 411

flick or two of the whip on the ground When you start the serious training, near them hurries them up. Two or about the eighth month, it will, in most three lessons will teach them this, and cases, be your own fault if you are not until they are seven or eight months successful. Dogs are like horses : most old, when the regular training begins, anxious to do the right thing and meet this will suffice. your wishes if only they can understand It is an excellent plan, while they are what you want them to do. quite young, to take them for walks Begin indoors, in the smoking room or round a rabbit warren, if there is one gun room, teaching the different words of

T EACH IN G HIM TO “ DOWN CHARGE ” near ; if not, let them play about amongst command for about half-an-hour each some tame rabbits; they will then learn day. The Germans call this “ house­ without trouble not to chase fur. breaking.” Do not take your dog out with While still babies, accustom them to a gun until he has learnt what each word the sound of fire arms some way off, so of command means, obeying quickly and that they grow up familiar with it; with pleasure. He must pay attention they will then not be gun-shy when the to the whistle ; one low call on it and he time comes to begin their education in must look to you for orders, though he earnest. need not come to you. This is easily 412 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE taught ; the tone of your voice in with a long check-cord from ten to addressing him and calling him a good twenty yards long. Take a garden boy dog pleases him and makes him look at or groom with you, impressing on him you. that if he speaks to the dog or interferes When teaching the difficult lesson of in any way, he will suffer the penalty dropping to hand or gun it is correct and of being shot himself ! technical to say “ Down charge ” instead I much prefer being alone with those of “ lie down while in a commanding I am teaching, with nothing to distract voice you say, “ Down charge ! ” with their attention, but one experience I had the accent on the “ down,” you press the with a retriever given to me when his pupil to the ground with your hand, own keeper had ruined him and made repeating the words ; he must lie quite a frightened cur of him taught me the flat, his front paws stretched out in front advisability of having a boy to fall back of him, his head resting on them. If you on. are gentle and firm dogs enjoy the lesson, The dog in question became quite mad the chief difficulty is in making them with fright when a gun was fired, so I stay in that attitude while you move practised for a long time when feeding away to some distance. It may be him to try and accustom him to the gun. necessary to tether the pupil down, I handled it by him, laid it by his food taking care not to hurt or frighten him. on the ground, took him for walks with “ Toho ” is used when anything is it, but never firing it. Next I tried firing forbidden. Should he wish to jump out a rifle and bullet, with its “ ping,” until of the window, you say “ Toho ! ” in a at last he seemed quite happy and at commanding voice. Many seem to know home. So I decided to take him out by hereditary instinct what it means if with the gun and try again, having your expression of voice is understood. another dog, to set a good example. “ Seek ” or “ Seek-dead ” means that I fastened the check cord to his collar, he must search for something ; this is and the other end round my waist, giving easily taught by hiding dainty bits, and him plenty of play. The moment I fired, teaching him to seek them, helping him he went off like a Catherine wheel, round at first to find them. and round me, till the cord was all tied “ ’Ware,” pronounced “ ’war,” is used up round my legs, and I fell with a to caution a dog. You say, “ ’Ware crash on top of him. I thought that sheep ! ” and they must know they arc really would be the end of all things, he to be careful and not touch them. would certainly never face a gun again, “ ’Ware” anything means, of course, but strangely enough he was much better. beware. I never punished him for running, or As soon as you begin to take your trying to run, away, always soothed him, pupil out, while he is “ down charging,” picked up the game and gave it to him handle your gun, and then fire off a in his mouth ; he eventually was quite copper cap, then a little powder, but be cured, but he taught me it is wise to careful not to frighten him. take a boy with you ready to be useful. Should you have a nervous dog to A promising, understanding puppy will break, and cannot assuage his fears, soon know by the movement of your couple him to an old experienced com­ hands and arms what you wish him to panion of the opposite sex for choice. do ; for instance, holding up the right This often answers ; dogs are imitative hand means the same thing as “ Down animals. charge.” By this time your pupil will Immediately a gun-shy dog hears the be taking an interest in the game, and report of a gun he takes the shortest cut look forward to going out for his lessons. into the next county, so have him led You will often find the hereditary GUN-SHY

NO. CCXIII. VOL. x x x v j . — April, 19 13 BB 414 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE instinct, when the scent first reaches a teaching to retrieve and " seek dead ” young dog, will induce him to point and in the field. then run in. You must then check him Begin by teaching them to mouth by pulling sharply the check cord, some soft thing gently—a child’s ball, saying, “ Toho this will convey to his indiarubber tobacco pouch, or, better mind that he must repress his ardour and still, a shot rabbit or bird ; let them eagerness and be steady. If he does not have it in their mouths, and give it to understand, make him “ down charge ” you into your hands or at your feet. then endeavour to impress upon him Next fasten up your pupil, and take what the word “ Toho ” means, if he the bird and hide it in a tuft of grass has forgotten. Remember, much outside, while he watches you ; then depends on the tone of your voice ; this tell him to go “ seek,” waving your arm is where a tactful, sympathetic woman in the direction you wish him to go, gains such an advantage over the average but do not allow him to drop it half-way, keeper, who never alters his tone, and or be rough with it ; hold up your hand, whose chief ideas are bounded on the and in a warning voice say, “ Ah ! ah ! North by blows, on the South by kicks, seek it ! fetch it ! ” In time he will East and West by cruelly pulling his learn what he has to do. ears and swearing at the top of his voice. I once had a retriever named Norah. When displeased or administering a Eventually she retrieved beautifully, warning, speak slowly, look grave, shake but for a long time I could not your head slowly from side to side, persuade her to bring the game to shake a finger while you hold his collar, me ; she used to stop half-way, roll the so as to look into his face while you say, bird about with her nose, and then “ No ! Toho ! Toho ! ” proceed to bury it. Having broken her of this habit, she then would set off for When pleased with him, and he has home with it as hard as her legs would learnt some lesson satisfactorily, speak carry her. I spent more hours trying in a cheerful voice, rather excitedly, to get her out of these bad habits than saying, “ Good dog,” repeating the word I have done over any other dog I have he has learnt, and caressing him. I carry ever broken. a dog whip—the crack of it is useful in On one occasion I had taken out with teaching, but I only use it seriously in me, a dear old man who used to work j extremely rare cases. about the grounds (sweeping up leaves, Do not compare a headstrong, deter­ and so on), partly because it gave him mined character with a vicious one ; great pleasure and because I wanted some of the most persistent offenders turn someone to hold the check cord if out the best in the end. Each has his necessary. He was quite a character, own character, as I have before and we had a great affection for him ;! remarked ; the same method will not he was a very silent person, but when do for every dog. he spoke loved to use long words he Avoid any open clashing of wills, did not understand. He was always j unless absolutely necessary, when you filled with horror if anything or anybody must, of course, win, or the dog will be dared disobey me, and when I fired my I ever after worthless. I would not keep a shot and Norah proceeded home with dog I could not break with kindness and the partridge as soon as she retrieved it, firmness; spending my days beating without as much as looking in our dogs would be bad for my morals ! direction, I said, “ Allen, she’s gone You will now have arrived at the home again ! ” No answer ; so I turned easiest and pleasantest part of the to my companion for sympathy. He education of either spaniel or retriever, was standing with feet far apart, with “ DROP IT, GOOD DOG ! ” 416 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

wide open eyes nearly falling out of his further off, unless checked at once in head; then pulling himself together, the beginning. shaking his head, he said, “ Aperiently If a dog does not come to your call or so ! ” He liked mysterious, impressive whistle, do not beat him, take hold of his words. collar, look in his face and rate him, Never be unduly harsh with a dog ; calling him a bad, bad dog, in a harsh make allowances for his youth and voice, cracking your whip over him and abundance of joy in life. Be sure you on the ground ; whistle between whiles never punish him unless you are quite softly to him ; he will understand. certain he disobeyed you knowingly. Never allow a dog you have had to Teaching a dog to quarter his ground punish to creep away from you without is difficult ; he must not go straight leave, neither let him go unless you see ahead, but work from right to left, never by the wag of his tail or by his creeping more than twenty yards in front. If he up to you that he has forgiven you ; if is not doing right, check him by the you are not careful on this point you check cord, pulling it up sharply ; wave will in future not be able to catch him. your arm in the direction he should go The greatest drawback to me, if I and take an experienced dog to work broke dogs for sale, would be parting with him, being very careful yourself to from them after making them perfect, remember to work him up wind. after the close companionship of training. Nearly all dogs have a tendency to Few pople really thoroughly appreciate work hedgerows, instead of the orthodox the love of a dog for its master; style of quartering, also for chasing fur, occasionally you may find one of a which must be firmly suppressed, being philosophical turn of mind who, losing an unpardonable fault. one master, will tack himself on to On occasions of this kind I have heard another with complacency, but it is not owners and keepers make the earth and common with them, though it is consoling air reverberate with their yells and to think sporting dogs as a rule so love language. What good does that do ? their work that those who provide them Instead of running to call or whistle, with their sport fill their hearts for the the dog knows that he is going to time being. “ catch it,” so determines to have some A dog has such strong affections— it is fun for his beating, on the principle that the one love in your life you can rely upon he may as well be hanged for a sheep as a at all times. There are certainly; lamb. Besides doing no good yelling and creatures round you who fear you ; bursting themselves with rage, every others who say they love you, which head of game, every sparrow or cock means they cloak their feelings with robin is frightened within a mile ! expediency ; to others we are a useful Take every opportunity of making a piece of furniture ; but we stand alone,! retriever lift a woodcock, snipe, or fearfully alone in this planet with no landrail—they have a great dislike to love like that of our dog, who trusts us touching them, and will probably decline without question. We neglect him, he to have anything to do with them at loves us all the same ; illtreat him and first. When taking a dog out with you he licks our hand. for lessons, never allow him to romp Byron expresses himself charmingly in about with other dogs, or enter a field in his lines :— front of you, or gallop off without permission ; keep your eye on him. The “ Poor little dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend. temptation is so irresistible to him, and Whose honest heart is still his master’s own, he will steal a little further and a little Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone.” RUGBY FOOTBALL

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WITH THE TURKS AT SAN STEFANO BY LADY WESTMACOTT “ 1 saw one who poured water into a sieve, and ground it with all his might with a pestle of iron, fancying he did a useful and necessary task, but it remained water only, none the less.”

N ext time they have a war in Turkey I keep me from desiring more. England is think I will stand by. This at least is always ready to set out in aid of dis­ my feeling after having made a handsome tressed something or others, but Turkish present of some months of my life for behaviour demands a special line of j nothing and to nobody. And the net policy, and of course the true Britisher result of this months ?— Just zero ! has none. I happened to be in a position I wonder if others who went to the rescue to look on specially at the two British feel the same way about it ? Certainly missions, the Red Cross and the Red the Turkish Government offers one the Crescent—and I have a hard detective spectacle of how not to do it, and a eye—but I must resolve right here, at ! lesson of how easily the world may be the beginning, to keep most of the things i aken, in spite of a war with the Balkan that I could say to myself. The trouble Allies. I am not sure that I would not is that Turkey’s example is contagious, j go further, and say that they absolutely and although you arrive in Constanti­ resent foreign interference, even in the nople all marked urgent, and determined matter of their wounded and sick, and to sweep the cobwebs out of the sky, show a creditable desire—perhaps — to you soon learn, like Mrs. Gamp, not to “ keep their ain fishguts for their own proticipate, but to take things as they sea-maws.” Anyhow I have now seen comes and as they goes. just so much of Turkish methods as to The history of the Turkish war again- WITH THE TURKS AT SAN STEFANO 421 the Allies is too well known to need my thought that so much spade-work was abridgment of it. At any rate, on seeing awaiting us in the field of philanthropy so many Powers attack Turkey “ simul­ that we must rush straight off to the taneous,” I was stirred to writing to the offices of the Red Crescent without delay. Turkish Government to offer them a Depositing our luggage at the Pera field ambulance. After a delay of many Palace Hotel, and much too taken up weeks, I received the following telegram : with our purpose to either lunch or “ Acceptons off re adressee Nazim, Pasha choose rooms, we asked the concierge to remerciments Azmy Vice-president Crois- direct our coachman to the Red Crescent. sant-rouge.” By this time there was talk The Bell of old Bow is reported to have in the papers of the armistice being said “ I do not know,” and that is what

I.ADY WESTMACOTT signed from one moment to the other, so the concierge acknowledged without any after consulting with their embassy in shame. Though a little astonished, we Paris, I decided to leave the ambulance ran into Cook’s office opposite to get the question in abeyance, and started off to address from them. They had no idea Constantinople, via Constanza, taking either, but suggested it was “ likely to with me a Dr. Demianoff, who had had be in Stamboul so we started off experience of cholera epidemics amongst vaguely, but so determined of the im­ the peasantry in Russia. Our arrival in portance of the Red Crescent that we Constantinople was rather characteristic were sure we would catch sight of it first of both that country and ourselves. We thing. After much driving about and 422 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE many conversations on the part of our assisting at the removal of one toe of a guide—a man resident I should not like Turk. Where were the wounded ? we to say how many years in Turkey—we asked ourselves. That was the mystery were finally landed at the Museum, part which we solved eventually to our of which had been converted into a satisfaction— but I know I shall write hospital by the British Red Cross. of things, if I once begin, that I Here at last was a ray of light on our had best leave. When we hear, as we darkness. We were at once directed to have, of how overworked some of the the office of the Red Crescent, and soon doctors and nurses were, we consider arrived there. I sent in my card, and what they say of themselves with some then began the process of “ milking a abatement ; or close one eye and inquire he-goat into a sieve,” that we kept where ? Poor Akil Bey had to acknow­ up for another week. After half-an- ledge that we were not needed anywhere, hour’s waiting — not long for either and he got us so dizzy looking at hospitals Turkey or a Pasha—Bessim Pasha that it was almost a relief to find our­ received us, and we soon discovered that selves back at the Pera Palace that we were up against solid rock on one evening—minus rooms, and feeling as side and perpendicular nothingness on flat as long-decanted claret— but still the other. I need not begin by saying deluding ourselves that we were in he had never heard of me, though I had Mazeppa’s classic predicament, bound to his vice - president’s telegram in my go on. pocket asking me to come. Our inter­ We had only to pick up no matter view was as lamentable as may be. He which paper to read of the thousands was not the least forthcoming, but, attacked by cholera. Where were they ? perhaps as the only method of getting Why could we not go and get rid of our rid of us, gave us an appointment for energy on them ? The next few days 10-30 next day, when he said he would we spent in wearing a path up to the place us somewhere. We had been in­ Red Crescent, insisting upon being sent sisting to him that there must be plenty to where the cholera was worst. We of work to do, and he had listened to our even asked leave to work in the mosque statements with the greatest indifference. of San Sofia, where we had been watching Giving up our rooms at the Pera the trago-comedy in our spare moments, Palace next morning we arrived with our of which we had dreadfully many. bags at the Red Crescent, but onlv to Fiacre after fiacre would drive up to hold an indignation meeting with our­ the entrance, presumably from the selves in an empty room ; for Bessim station, the least ill of the occupants Pasha had made an appointment that would pay the driver—you would have he was evidently anxious to miss, as he thought you might be conveyed carriage- delayed it for at least an hour and a half. paid by a paternal government — and Eventually Akil Bey was sent with us then the poor creatures, who looked so to show us the various hospitals in little like soldiers, would stumble or be Stamboul. He added naively, “ J ’en dragged in, and disappear into the profiterai pour faire mon inspection.” So interior of the wonderful mosque. The off we started, and visited several large fiacre would then turn round, and its hospitals, but we were dismayed to find hood, horses’ noses, and driver’s hat so many empty beds, and so many would be disinfected, in a very inadequate doctors everywhere. It was obvious manner, by two soldiers stationed out­ that there was no work for us in any of side for the purpose, and drive off to them. In one, at least half - a - dozen pick up myself and Dr. Demianoff, or doctors of l’Equipe Roumaine were the next fare who “ happened by.” standing round the operating table, The Red Crescent were getting to hate WITH THE TURKS AT SAN STEFANO 423 the sight of us, and we, equally, of visits for us himself, he gave us a letter to the of hints and pauses, when we had each doctor of the Russian Embassy, who sent long ago exhausted all we had to say. us on to the French one, who said he We were all involved in polite regrets, hoped to have a hospital ready in a few and we had succeeded with much diffi­ weeks time, and though he would not culty in saying nothing of what we really have work for Dr. Demianoff, I could thought, or we would have said something superintend the food for the doctors and pretty rough. Which was the way of nurses if I liked. These were the slings proving ourselves other than donkeys and arrows of outrageous fortune. It is was puzzling us sorely. Whether I had all right to love Humanity, but we were come out in answer to their telegram, getting disgusted trying to create work, whether, seeing I had come, they should with Turkey sitting around with its provide for me were all untroubled tongue in its cheek, whilst there was questions with them. Anyhow, after really so much work to do, could we but

rHE YARD OF THE GREEK SCHOOL about the fourth day of our importunate find it. We had been there a week and visits, Bessim Pasha got too busy to see had accomplished just nothing. Bessim us, and settled down to the real business Pasha had gone out of business after the of cigarettes and coffee drinking. fourth day of our worrying him, and we Dr. Demianoff was for abandoning the never saw him again. I am not anything whole affair through sheer faintness. It to be fooled, and I wanted something was then I determined on one last effort. settled at once, even if it were the next I wrote a letter to the doctor of the train home ; so Dr. Demianoff and I went English Embassy asking if he could over to Cook’s to find out about the suggest any work to us ? latter. When we got back to the hotel, He very kindly asked us to go out and we were reminded of the proverb, “ It’s see him at Shischli, a suburb of Con­ a long worm that never turns ” : a letter stantinople, where he had made a small from the English doctor advised us to hospital; and though he could do nothing call on Mrs. Rockhill, the American 424 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

Ambassador’s wife, who was trying, it but the conditions were very bad, and said, to send help to the cholera patients we had best go and see them for our­ at San Stefano. selves. The proposal was marvellously This sounded much more like business, to our taste, I told her, and I thought it and I lost no time in going to see her. would suit us from the ground up. She I found a charming person, who got right intimated that it would more likely make down to the subject at once, and did not my hair curl if by any chance I wore my take a fortnight to pass a given point as own. To hire an automobile was the a pasha. She said there was a Scotch shortest way out to the weeping and minister at San Stefano, who finding the wailing and gnashing of teeth, which we

CONVALESCENTS EMBARKING FOR THEIR COUNTRY sick lying about without shelter, had accordingly did, and found ourselves dragged them into the Greek school outside the Ecole Grecque at San Stefano there, and with the sole help of two old early next morning. The Turks have ladies, was struggling to fill their empty experience in cholera, and though there stomachs, put warm clothes on their is work for the Recording Angel in their backs, and sponge them into tolerable way of dealing with it—if they pretend cleanness. The American Embassy to a step above the savage—still, mighty doctor was going there as often as he unfeminine as it is of me, I suppose, I am could, and the Embassy was sending inclined to think they are much in the such practical aid as they could manage, right in their theory — dear to the WITH THE TURKS AT SAN STEFANO 425 individualist—that the State helps most in, what is often euphoniously called, the by doing least, and that the quickest way other world, for he is a lineal descendant of stamping it out is to leave it to the of the Samaritan. Mr. Frew introduced general survival of the fittest. Take one us to the two ladies : Fraulein Alt, a instance instead of many : much later, Swiss, over seventy, and a Madame a German bacteriologist of the Egyptian Schneider, of Austrian origin, owning to Mission examined a batch of conval­ fifty and looking much more. The matter escents who were being sent to their of requirements is not an exact science ; homes ; he found twenty-five per cent, but remember these people had little or of them with the cholera bacillse. This no money to work with, no help for days, means that with the return of the hot and the sick were lying so thick on the weather the cholera will be spread to floor that you could hardly pick your many a corner of Turkey. Turkey tempts way between the bodies. As to Fraulein to the insane, and you are apt to find Alt, not content with giving them food

the honest prejudices, that cling natur­ and clothing, she would kneel on the ally to you in England, dropping off you floor beside them, raise their heads on there. her arm, and try to persuade the dying All this parenthetically. Our automo­ to eat or drink, her nose an inch off bile, as I was saying, had stopped outside theirs. The result was that she got the Ecole Grecque, and as I got out cholera, or a good imitation of [it, “ What met my eyes ? herself—but of that later. Mr. Frew Only the Doric little morgue.” then showed us the hospital, and gave us a whiff of pure menagerie, only We quickly recognised that forty-horse­ a little sourer, as from men instead of power angel, Mr. Frew, th e Scotch monkeys. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote minister, disguised as he was in a suit that, but as it expresses just what I want of oilskins. I will back him for a place to say, I annex it. It was a smell that 426 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE not even good breeding could overlook. such nuisances of ourselves, and abso­ Such were the ingredients of the Greek lutely pursue work. school. Lying there in their filth, they Anyhow, we expressed ourselves to Mr. hardly struck one as human beings, Frew as very much delighted with this far less soldiers. They ranged more sort of smell, that we both meant coming easily in one’s conception with the ox out to San Stefano quicker than he could and the ass—those poor creatures, many get ready, and he might as well be making of whom had never handled a rifle till up his mind where he meant to put us. they were sent to the front, to remain He said he had had an empty house lent there unfed, untended, and unpicked up him by an Englishman, and if we would when they fell as chair a canon to bring some furniture he would be de­ European troops. lighted to put us up there. We said we would be back the first thing next “ Poor men God made, and all for that." morning, but we had to deal with a great want of confidence. He and the two ladies told us they were sure they would never see us again, but they forgot that it’s a good deal easier to get a fish­ hook in than it is to get it out, and we just felt that we must stop and help them. It was quite as arbitrary a feeling as falling in love. So we hurried back to Constantinople and spent the afternoon investing in camp beds and what we judged the bare necessities of life for an indefinite period. The trains to San Stefano were not running yet, owing to the war, so next day we took the steamer from the Galata bridge. This is much the prettiest route ; the view of the town from the sea, with its Roman walls and endless mosques and minarets, being very beautiful. There MR. FREW seems not a straight line anywhere, and the picturesque little wooden houses You see Browning’s poem kept re­ appear merely to stand by force of peating itself in my head. There was cohesion. We arrived just in the nick of obviously so much to do that one felt time. Mr. Frew was worn out ; Miss Alt bewildered where to begin. And I took to her bed the next day for several thought of Bessim Pasha, with his hand days, only to exchange it for one at the like a slice of cold fish, and his fulness Seaman’s hospital in Galata, where she of time—no hurry with him—and felt remained, I think, for nearly a month. how we might have talked together for Madame Schneider was thoroughly over­ a thousand years without understanding tired. The British Red Crescent had each other. He had always been polite, meanwhile arrived, and were making a please understand ; Akil Bey even more camp hospital. They were all staying at so, often asking if there was anything Mr. Frew’s house. After a fortnight else about which he could give us satis­ the Greek school was definitely taken faction ? And to think that we were over by the British Red Crescent, Mr. within a short distance of all this misery Frew going away and Dr. Demianoff the whole time, and had had to make returning to Paris. WITH THE TURKS AT SAN STEFANO 427

Up till then it remained pretty well a a girl of seventeen, he said, alone in matrazzcn-gruft, and I think there was Anatolia, with only a medjidie (about no variety of illness from which those 3s. 4d.) for her keep. What would hap­ unhappy soldiers did not suffer. They pen to a young girl with only a medjidie ? were most of them coughing like sick he used to ask me, and I used to promise ewes, too. I used to walk round the that I would send him to his country wards with lumps of sugar in my pockets when he got well. But, alas ! all the and a bottle of chlorodyne. “ Soorghun?” hospitalent did not cure his ills. I would I would question, which being interpreted make him lying promises every day about means diarrhoea. As they like sugar, and himself and his daughter, and I am only believe in the efficacy of drugs anyway, sorry, now that he is dead, that I did they invariably replied affirmatively. not make him more. Once when he was

A TURKISH PATROL Photograph by H. E. S. SHven, Cairo Whereupon I would lay my head to one very ill he seemed to be asking something side, simulate unholy wisdom, and of me—he had a very peremptory way measure out ten drops of chlorodyne ; with him, too—so I went and brought an which officious action on my part earned interpreter, and found out that he was me the title of “ Doctor Effcndi.” demanding pickles ! Surely a rather Rudyard Kipling remarks that we’ve all deplacee diet for soorghun. I speak as a been one sort of fool or t’other in our sciolist. time, and “ I him believe ” (je lui crois). Those early days were busy ones. Dr. There was one poor old man, quite D. and I would be down at the school seventy, I should judge, who had been by 6-30 to see the early morning tea sent to the war in mistake for another of distributed. I won’t go very far into the same name. He had left a daughter, “ pertic’lers,” but one used to find a 428 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE large percentage of dead and dying, tually I found nothing to surprise me in cheek by jowl on the floor with the living. such a world, though at first I owrn to It was pretty “ punky,” this compound feeling my brain-cells all running to­ of dead with perverse gases, after the gether in my effort to keep pace with windows and doors had been closed all the tricks of the wily Turk. It indeed night. And here it becomes necessary meant putting on your boots overnight. almost to whisper : it was quite difficult It was good to walk back to our house sometimes to get the dead removed as occasionally, and get cold, placid views quickly as they should have been from of the sea, with wholly lovely sunrises the other poor skinfuls of coughs and and sunsets. It sometimes j ust prevented bones. One had to be a philosopher and one from running mad through all the take death and life as you would night lies, twattles, and contrivances innumer­ and day, resolved whatever happened in able that one had to bear. How of a such an upside-down world not to be lifetime of it when we were in trepidation upset by it. I hope I managed this— of our wits with a few weeks ! perhaps to the damage of my olfactory Another discombobolating factor was nerve, but to the broadening maybe of the amount of holidays. Of course, our my outlook on life. own Christmas was down upon us with One would like to make that Turkish its attendant St. Stephen and St. John’s Government get on the floor and look at days. But that was only the beginning itself. I try to comfort myself with the of the trouble. In a few days we were moral that those who are entitled to it warned that none of the ordinary satel­ get it sooner or later ; but I fear, like the lites of the hospital, interpreters, washer­ Resurrection of the Just, it's a long time women, etc., would turn up, as it was a-coming, and meanwhile we must think the Greek Christmas, St. John and St. well of the world, must we? and acquiesce Stephen. Shortly afterwards a third set in this principle of Selection. There were of holidays came off, whether Turkish or the Pashas, very indifferent and great Armenian my Protestant mind had not enemies to all manner of fatigue, offering the patience to enquire. remarks and escaping listening to any Perhaps what affected me as being replies, whilst the poor soldiers were in responsible for the hospital laundry was grievous bodily case, and the foreign the atrocious quality of the climate. missions all very troublesomely engaged There was only a half-open shed to do in trying to set things in order. the washing in : either the washerwomen One of one’s first difficulties in the were standing knee-deep in mud, or it hospital was to understand what the poured for four consecutive days and patients said—which you couldn’t. Then nothing would dry the clothes ; or a it would have been useful to be quadri- thief would take the greater part off the manous, not to mention argus-eyed, for clothes-line under the eyes of the intelli­ the statement that the Turk is the biggest gent sentry (sometimes searching the thief unhung will stand the glare of sentry’s tent restored a few of the missing publicity better than some of the other articles) ; or it would be one of the things that could be said about him. I above - mentioned Church festivals in tried to keep an eye on them—indeed, which no work was done ; or the head fixed two instead of one—but even so washerman would be simply and openly everything that was not chained down drunk. Those who understand the im­ got taken away, and I should think the portance of the laundry arrangements in Red Crescent, by now, has tolerably hospitals will sympathise with me. accommodated every household in San Another day I found the laundry Stefano. It took me nearly a month to converted into a stable for cavalry. cease looking for figs on thistles. Even­ Once we were—doctors and all— WITH THE TURKS AT SAN STEFANO 429 forbidden entrance to the hospital by a bound round their legs all night, inter­ cordon of soldiers, their officer issuing fering with the circulation. Another is orders from horseback. But Turkey is that lyddite shells cause gangrene. I full of such right-about changes and one pass by on the other side, as I really do could never tell when the Government— not know, and I don’t know if anyone who from start to finish placed obstacles else does. in our way—had gotten to the bottom of Then at 11 another meal used to be their bag of bombs. I used often to handed round, arrowroot or Bovril for wonder if it was just madness, dislike the very weak. By the way, it is as of us, or one of the things without a difficult to make the Turk take Bovril name. Starting the day in Turkey is as it is to give a dog medicine : he just

A TRENCH AT TCHATALJA as trying a venture into the Unknown backs into the britchin’ and refuses to as to marry, as you have not the take anything at all. Of course, the slightest idea what it may bring forth. British Red Crescent had sent out cases After the early morning tea, the full of it. Then there would be a thick doctoring and the dressing of bedsores, vegetable soup called " chorba ” for the bandaging, etc., would take place. At less weakly, and a substantial pilaff for first there were many cases of gangrenous the convalescents. feet necessitating operation. There have This meal was repeated again in the been one or two theories put forward as afternoon. The interval was taken up to the prevalence of this. One is that fitting them out with warm clothes, it was occasioned by frost bite in the filling their water bottles— this disease trenches, when the men had their putties makes them wonderfully thirsty — or

no. ccxiii. v o l . x x x v i . — April, 1913 cc 430 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE doling out tobacco. There were two further pain. On the other hand, they fairy godfathers, Mr. Phillips of the may have saved lots of lives, for all I American Embassy, and the Hon. know. Maurice Baring, who must both have In the course of time the Greek school spent a small fortune in tobacco. Their became unrecognisable : beds were in­ visits, almost daily ones, were hailed troduced, temperature charts, hot water with huge delight, for the Turk, though in each ward, etc. And what was most dying, is always ready to smoke. needed—nursing. There were six English Poor old Madame Schneider helped to nurses, each of whom had two or three distribute the food at meal times. She Turkish so-called infirmiers under her, had long ago hung up her harp upon a but I think they were chiefly good for tree, and even on beautiful sunny days doing just nothing. One of them, re­ she refused to brighten. Her widowhood christened the Brigand, would easily

INFIRMIERS, “ CHIEFLY GOOD FOR DOING NOTHING” was a patent process of working out have had an outbreak of primitive hunt­ pathos, her ill-health another long suit, ing instincts. He had a moustache like and any sympathy would introduce you a Viking’s, and eye teeth like a tiger’s. to her interior, with distressingly full In moments of elation he would boast of particulars. She worked as hard as how many Christian women he had Fraulein Alt did—anyhow she kept it killed ; and if you did not greatly believe up much longer—but I think it remained him you only had to look at him to be a grievance with her that her name was convinced. , not so much before the public. The work got distinctly dull after the The doctors in those early days could first six weeks. One had come out have gone on doctoring from sun up till hoping to fight Bulgarians and was now sun down. Personally, I hated seeing staying on merely fighting vermin, with them go around with their saline trans­ which the Turkish soldier is plentifully fusions, for, speaking like St. Paul as a supplied. No doubt Darwin could have fool, I felt that at least the poor dying explained the primeval attitude with should have earned immunity from which Humanity, “ sans indispensables,” WITH THE TURKS AT SAN STEFANO 431 would sit up in their beds and search with the house. They were both inclined to their shirts. “ get a jag on,” and it was not uncommon There were now about fifty patients, to hear that all the glasses, or most of with five English doctors and six nurses the cups, had been destroyed in one fell to look after them. I fear our philan­ swoop by Michali falling up or down thropic energy by creating a demand for stairs with them. They had evidently sick created also the supply. Most of the both found out, before the scientists got patients came in very exhausted and on to it, that Alcohol is food. I hired a seemed to have very little stamina. If Greek boy to make himself useless about you could induce them to keep fairly the house, but if I must regard him in well by day they were quite likely to the light of a servant, he was distinctly indemnify themselves by dying in the a failure.

INTERIOR OF TEMPORARY BARRACK— CHOLERA CAMP, SAN STEFANO Photograph by H. E. S. Stiven, Cairo night. I was distinctly coming to feel I was just beginning to wish myself as if I could get along if I couldn’t have “ bien loin d'ici,” when our medecin-cn- life in San Stefano regular, and the chef was approached by the International thought of an excellent dinner and a Sanitary Board with a request to create comfortable bed waiting for me in Paris a new hospital of 120 beds in wooden when I ceased running after strange barracks that had come out ready-made hearts was beginning to weigh. The from Germany, and only needed screwing comforts that the Maison Stock held out together. Whether he ever really under­ to us when we returned there at night, stood what the proposition involved I our spirits sometimes sadly sunk, could be am inclined to doubt, but unfortunately easily counted. Two servants “ went ” he had a private opinion that he could

CC 2 432 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE speak French, which gave a haziness to of next month’s Pera fashions. She did all the conversations that I happened to not look to me at all related to the poor overhear. Anyhow, he undertook to set lady who married Caesar. She looked the hospital going, which in a short space much more like a Daughter of Joy from of time was accomplished. Then began, Stamboul. I put some little vanity, I to my mind, an impossible situation, own, into plunging through the mud which had its humour, if Humour is with her tripping at my heels, to show what Meredith described as “ the clash her the scene of her future labours—a of Sense with novel examples of the wooden shed, knee-deep in slush, with Absurd.” all the winds of heaven tearing through First of all a Turkish youth, aged its glassless windows. You see I could nineteen, was put in as Director. Poor not tell her directly that she was a little Kiamil Bey was important to him­ wanton baggage, so I tried to show her self in an eminent degree. If I partially how ingeniously she was named an succeeded in forgiving him during the ironer. Akil Bey also sent us a cook for night, five minutes of his absurd pink the new hospital, who left after a day in and white face, his fez perched at a the kitchen—and I don’t blame him— ridiculous angle, undid the work. For his aide-de-camp running away the first the first day or two he played Mary’s morning. lamb to me wherever I went, to “ con- I waited a few days to see if things troler,” as he expressed it, whether I was were likely to continue in such a ridicu­ doing my duties to his satisfaction. I lous manner—not a sixpennyworth of explained to him right off that if he got common sense applied to anything— and in my way he’d have to invent something then, as it was in my power to shorten to bring himself back to life, and as far my visit to Turkey when I pleased, and as I am concerned, I finally managed to having not such a voracious appetite for bounce him. offering ambulances as I had had at the But the Turk’s idea of running a hos­ beginning, though war was just breaking pital showed itself in various ways too out afresh, I felt the old Constanza train far removed from mine to persuade me could land me back in Paris just any to stay. For the first two days, for time it got ready. Which it conveniently instance, grace a cet enfant, there was undertook to do, and did. As I left literally no food for the patients. Water Constantinople I heard that the Sanitary for cooking or washing purposes was Board, having no more funds,—this after more precious than gold ; it was sup­ a fortnight of their new hospital—had posed to be conveyed in carts that never sold it to the Ottoman Red Crescent, came. After I had made myself mad doctors, nurses and all. I am glad I just clean through trying to get some of the escaped getting sold too. I am afraid I hospital linen washed and ironed, Akil have slid insensibly into talking of my­ Bey sent me out a “ lady-ironer,” whom self, though much resolved against it Galib Bey, another of our Controllers, when I set out. I only meant to describe presented to me. How well I remember truthfully a so-called cholera camp at the scene ! W e were standing in a sea San Stefano, as it struck me. Pilate of mud as they arrived in a carriage. asked for a definition of Truth. Mark She, my ironer to be, had black patent Twain remarks that it is stranger than leather boots with brown tops and Louis Fiction, because Fiction is obliged to X V . heels, and many other hall-marks stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t. T H E OWNERS OF OCTOPUS

A T a l e o f t h e F r e n c h T u r f

BY J. P. MITCHELL

B i l l y W i g g i n trained a handful of Although never on intimate terms platers at La Morlaye in the days when with prosperity, Wiggin had always been the leading and lesser lights of the comfortably well off, and had even French Turf congregated in Paris at the known twelve months’ comparative Irish-American and Cosmopolitan Bars, affluence, which, the zenith of his long before Henry’s or the Chatham was financial achievements, could be traced in vogue, and when Maxim’s was not. to a fluky victory in a well-endowed Racing in France in the early ’sixties was handicap of one of the best horses he a sucking infant compared to the puberty had ever saddled, who had been backed it has attained to-day. Courses were from one end of “ Chisel Street ” to the primitive and administration lax ; the other before short-heading the favourite, large majority of Frenchmen held the whose rider had broken a stirrup-leather average Englishman in spellbound almost at flagfall. admiration, attributing to him, no At that time the inmates of Wiggin’s matter what his status, a profound stable numbered nearly a score, but a knowledge of everything connected with year or so later the death of his principal the Turf by sheer reason of his patron saw the majority of the trainer’s nationality. And of the many queer charges sold under the hammer. Wiggin, things that then happened that with who, perhaps, was no shining light which Billy Wiggin was primarily con­ among judges of horseflesh, utilised the cerned was probably by long odds the bigger part of his bank balance in buying queerest. a likely two-year-old never destined to Fifty years ago Parisian sportsmen run, while to his bitter mortification it thought as much of a louis as they do was no other than his pet enemy to now of a franc—every old stager will tell whom on the same day was knocked you that ; the then comparatively small down for a “ pony ” a future winner of army of metropolitan racegoers had £6,000 in stakes. “ money to burn,” and they were slaves With Wiggin that was the beginning to the game of hazard, at which upon a of the end. Things went from bad to single throw of the dice often £2,000 and worse. The stable sent out nothing but more would change hands several times losers ; two horses broke down badly. during a single sitting in the small hours. They had been galloped to death on The racing fraternity were rich ; but hard going, argued their owner, who “ the exception proves the rule,” and promptly took them away and threatened in this instance an unfortunate exception an action for culpable negligence ; was Billy Wiggin. another patron followed suit, with the

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result that one evening Wiggin arrived Arrived at the French Newmarket, home to find the head lad and his Wiggin made straight for the Cafe du underlings in charge of the three-year- Sport, nodded with studied dignity to old Octopus, the sole remaining occupant two or three groups of trainers and of a fairly large establishment. Burgundy ordered a Chambery-cassis and Le and brandy were much in evidence that Calendrier des Courses. Having studied night. But on the morrow Wiggin pulled “ Races to Close,” he called for pen, ink, himself together and faced the music. and paper, and proceeded to enter Octopus in five events, of which the first Then it was that Billy’s brain began was to be run a month later. Then, after the begetting of an idea the carrying-out posting his letter, he made for the of which was to be known as “ l’Affaire neighbouring charcuterie. Wiggin," and which would not have M. Chondelait, the local pork butcher, materialised had the rules of racing of was standing in his doorway, and greeted the period contained the existing enact­ Wiggin with an invitation to dejeuner, ment relative to the registration of which was promptly accepted. Over partnerships. their coffee and vieux Calvados the Octopus had belonged to a gilded trainer broached his subject. youth, who, having gone splendidly “ Well, mon ami,” he began, “ the bankrupt, presented the colt to the colt shapes well. Come and look him trainer because he was unable to meet over. If you still have a fancy for him, his account. As a youngster Octopus and we can come to terms, you ’ll realise was a flashy-looking animal, and he was the ambition of your life, and own not unfashionably bred. At first sight he only a racehorse but a winner at that. filled the eye ; but accepted judges I suppose you’re still of the same mind ?’’ would have none of him at any price he added with well-feigned indifference. as a two-year-old. For all that he M. Chondelait’s countenance was possessed a nice turn of speed, unfurnished wreathed in smiles. as he was, and Wiggin had determined “ Look here, you know what I want, to see what time would do for him. He and I’m willing to pay for it, but "—and had only carried silk once, and that as the pork butcher grew suddenly serious— a juvenile, when, scarcely half fit, he by “ but I can’t pay 12,500fr. As I told no means disgraced himself in a field of you before, 10,000fr. is my lim it." prominent performers by finishing sixth " Circumstances have altered," replied out of eleven. Wiggin. “ We shan’t quarrel about the Octopus wras Wiggin’s sole remaining price if the colt pleases you. Let’s drive asset. The trainer owed money all over to my place now and strike the round ; the landlord was pressing for bargain—if it is to be struck." six months’ rent, which was only a trifle Always a “ kind " horse, Octopus was compared with the wine merchant’s bill, on his best behaviour when Wiggin led and that, too, was less than half of his him into the manege. If somewhat on indebtedness to the odds-layers. Wiggin the big side, for he had been anything was in a bad way ; he knew it, and he but hurried in his preparation, he meant that half-crafty, half-clumsy head had an undeniably clean bill of of his to extricate him from his diffi­ health. M. Chondelait, who had never culties. The jaunty gait and determined been absent from Chantilly for more air of the man as he walked briskly into than a week at a time in all the thirty Chantilly for the first time since the years of his existence, not unnaturally departure of Octopus’s stable companions knew a good deal about horseflesh, and bespoke his determination to “ get there," came to the conclusion that Octopus and he at once began to set about it. was as sound as a bell. THE OWNERS OF OCTOPUS 435

Thus, when Wiggin retired for the could say with truth that Wiggin owed night he had in his possession ten mille him a centime. It would have astonished notes and the counterpart of a memo­ the gossips could they have known that, randum, which set forth that “ the in the cheap and tawdry little cash box three-year-old chestnut colt Octopus, by in Wiggin’s bedroom, there reposed in Oceanographer-Silvery Sea, the property bank notes W'hat some people would of Armand Chondelait, charcutier, of consider a fortune. Chantilly, Seine-et-Oise, is to run in the Immediately M. Chondelait heard that name and colours of, and to be trained Wiggin’s patrons had withdrawn their by, William Wiggin throughout his horses he presented himself at the stable racing career ; and that the said William and was inclined to be nasty; but Wiggin shall not divulge to any person Wiggin only smiled, and drowned the whatsoever that the colt Octopus is the pork butcher’s annoyance in the contents property of Armand Chondelait ; in of a bottle of Richebourg. default whereof the said William Wiggin On the eve of the initial engagement shall return the full purchase price of of his three-year-old career, which was 10,000 fr. together with a further sum at La Marche, Octopus presented almost of 5,000 fr. by way of damages for a businesslike appearance ; all the same, breach of contract.” he was far from fit. There were eight For M. Chondelait had great ex­ runners, and Octopus was ridden by pectations from a maternal uncle, a Jimmy Irish, who had served his psalm-singing Huguenot, and he knew apprenticeship with Wiggin, and always what would follow were he foolish rode the latter’s horses when he could enough to attempt to register his colours. do the weight. The chestnut, who was Wiggin was up betimes the following on offer at 16’s, was the extreme morning, and, having sent Octopus a outsider of the party. Striking the striding gallop, took the first train to ground with brilliant celerity, he got Paris. He paid his rent in hard cash, well away, and made alternate running and lunched off the fat of the land at the with the ultimate winner for half the Grand Vefour, in the Palais Royal, before journey, when he fell back beaten, owing proceeding to a sale at Neuilly-St. to lack of condition, finishing last but James, where he bought a six-year-old one. gelding to lead Octopus in his work. “ He ran pretty well, considering,” Later in the afternoon Wiggin made cheerily remarked M. Chondelait. three or four mysterious calls, and two Although he knew that Octopus was a persons upon whom he called subse­ temporary “ dead ’un,” he had been in quently visited him at La Morlaye. a fever of excitement ever since his Both of them were shown Octopus. The morning’s coffee and croissant, and had result of these visits appeared to be donned all the best of the “ glad rags ” eminently satisfactory, for Wiggin was he possessed on the occasion of his on the best of terms with himself, and, private debut as an owner of racehorses. what is more, the budget of mille notes “ It’s too bad he can’t run in my name in the inner pocket of his waistcoat had and colours! ” he added with a sigh. increased considerably. Octopus missed his next engagement, By this time it was common knowledge but three weeks later he faced the starter that all Wiggin’s horses had been taken in a field of thirteen at Fontainebleau, from him, and it was whispered that he where he figured in the second principal was on his last legs. Of credit he had item on the card—an eleven-furlong had little or none for months, but for all handicap for three-year-olds, in which that there was now not a man within a he had been allotted 8st. 1 lb. In the radius of fifty miles of the capital who betting he fluctuated between 10’s and 436 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

14’s, until he was finally knocked out to Octopus was set to concede the Fon­ ‘20’s, on which mark he remained. tainebleau winner 21 lb., while the old Both before and after superintending gelding was in receipt of 2 st., the boy the colt’s toilet Wiggin was in no lovable who rode the latter being told to come mood. M. Chondelait told him he had all the way with him to ensure a pace. taken 20’s to a louis “ for luck,” and the The trial resulted in the invariably trainer’s retort was so harsh that imperturbable Wiggin wearing the Chondelait was glad to get away. Thus smuggest of smiles. Irish waited on the he failed to notice two persons, both of other pair until a couple of furlongs from them typical of the class of respectable home, when Octopus came away and Parisian who indulges in racing only on won by three lengths from his conqueror the Sabbath, who held short whispered at Fontainebleau, with the old gelding, conversations with Wiggin—a fact not half-a-length away, third. It was im­ lost on Mr. Algernon Button, the mediately decided that Octopus would prominent professional punter of the be “ out ” for his next race, to be run day, and a man who was the quintessence at Porchefontaine five days later, and of shrewdness, who ear-marked the for the first time Wiggin regretted that incident for future investigation, for he he had parted with the colt. But, after had noted that Octopus had all the all, had not Octopus been the means of makings of a good horse. paying his debts ? Jumping off with the lead, Octopus “ You’ll be on 200 ‘ English ’ to cut out the work at a good pace for nothing, Jimmy,” Wiggin told Irish, seven furlongs, but then was done with. “ and I fancy that after the way he “ That big chestnut doesn’t stay,” carried you this morning you’ll only remarked one of the supposed cogno­ have to sit still again, wait behind the scenti, as Octopus passed the post tenth, leaders, and then give him his head just after again making a good deal of the below the distance, as you did to-day.” running. After that Wiggin walked over to “ What kind of ride did he give you ?” Chantilly, when he told M. Chondelait asked Wiggin anxiously, as Irish was that he “ thought the colt might be removing the saddle. ‘ good ’ for his next race,” and the pork butcher, little dreaming of the trial that “ I fancy as ’ow I could ’ave won. had taken place, went into an ecstasy ’E’s a good ’oss ; that’s my opinion of of enthusiasm, and insisted on opening ’im, and I shall be surprised if you don’t a “ bottle.” He would certainly have get a nice race or two out of ’im. It 100 louis on, he said. was as much as I could do to ’old ’im At the Cosmopolitan that evening after I’d given ’im ’is ’ead. ’E fairly Irish ran across Mr. Algernon Button. revelled in the ’ard goin’, big ’oss as ’e The pair dined and wined together, with is, and I thought as ’ow ’e was never the result that long before midnight the goin’ to stop ; most other ’osses in the jockey had been pumped of all he knew condition ’e’s in would ’ave run their- of the Octopus trial, which was every­ selves to a standstill long before at that thing except the weights. Mr. Button pace. I don’t think as ’ow ’e’s much was more generous than Wiggin, for be’ind classic form.” with him Irish was to be “ on ” a French Wiggin was well satisfied. A fortnight “ monkey.” later he attended a sale and bought the On the morning of the race Octopus winner of the race at Fontainebleau, left La Morlaye for Porchefontaine fit from whom Octopus had been in receipt and well. Wiggin had invited his. of 10 lb., and a month afterwards there commission agent— an astute Scotchman was a trial over a mile and a half. as astute as his name, which was Scott— THE OWNERS OF OCTOPUS 437 to dejeuner in an unpretentious hostelry attention, and at that very moment in the Rue St. Honore, where in a half-a-dozen persons were crowding round cabinet particulier they discussed the plan gaping at the colt. Wiggin cast a of campaign. surly look on them. But what did it Wiggin was early in the paddock. matter ? Such a good thing couldn’t “ Yes, back him,” he advised in come undone. Octopus might be the response to the perspiring M. Chondelait’s best three-year-old in all France. Since eager questioning, “ but not for too his two-year-old days he had grown into much. I’m having 25 louis on myself; a different animal. Of course, M. perhaps you’ll be good enough to do it Chondelait would be a little disappointed for me,” added the artful Wiggin, with at not winning more ; but, then, it the result that the former immediately wouldn’t have done to tell him the determined to risk no larger a sum truth ; it might have been all over the himself. place! There were others, too. They Shortly before the numbers went also would be disappointed, but they up for the first race Wiggin in turn could have their turn next time—when conversed with the ultra-respectable the colt ran in Paris and opened individuals with whom Mr. Button had favourite at 6 to 4. Wiggin almost seen him talk at Fontainebleau ; but laughed out loud at the idea, in spite of Wiggin cut them very short. For each himself. one he had the same reply. Suddenly, however, his thoughts were “ Oh, yes, he looks well. You might rudely interrupted. Octopus was being have just a little bit on. But there’ll led round the circular bridle path, and be a big field, and I hear there are one Wiggin was just off to the buffet to or two promising dark ’uns.” steady his nerves with a fine champagne, To a trainer, an old-time friend, when who should rush up to him, Wiggin replied somewhat tartly, “ Oh, betraying grave concern and no little I suppose I’ve got some sort of a chance, excitement, but Scott ! but they tell me that brown of Blake’s “ We’ve been done ! ” cried the com­ is sure to do it.” missioner breathlessly. “ He opened at To himself Wiggin murmured, ‘‘Wonder 5 to 2, and now he’s practically evens.” what they’ll think when Scott and his For a moment Wiggin’s face went man have him down to 5’s ? ” alternatively red and white. When at The Prix de l’Echelle was the third last he found speech, a monosyllabic race on the card, and was a weight-for- expletive was all he could utter. age affair with 400 sovs. added. Being “ You must be m ad,” he exclaimed a maiden, Octopus took all the allowances finally. “ It can’t be true,” and, with and, together with a trio of his opponents, Scott in close attendance, he raced he had the minimum impost of 7 st 7 lb. towards the ring. The distance was one mile and a half. But it was only too true. The money Nineteen runners ! Scott ought to must have come back to the course from snap up a few 20’s and 16’s. What “ Chisel Street ” — the Rue de Choiseul, would the commission average, he then in the heyday of its “ list ” men— wondered ? Surely it ought to work out where a fairish amount had been invested at 15’s ? He did hope they wouldn’t at s.p. At least, so Wiggin thought. make a muddle of it. There could be “ Egalite, Octopus ! ” was the unani­ no doubt about it—the colt must win. mous shout. What a glutton he was for work, and in Wiggin stood in motionless bewilder­ his last three gallops he had gone better ment. than ever ! How well he looked, too ! “ What does this mean ? ” demanded That was a pity, perhaps, for it attracted M. Chondelait with an oath, and striking 438 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE a menacing attitude, until it dawned On swept the spreadeagled field, an upon him that Wiggin appeared to be outsider and the second favourite being no less amazed than himself. out by themselves at the head of affairs. “ I don't quite know,” faltered Wiggin, Last away, Octopus was last also into blankly. “ Come with me. He mustn’t the straight, wheeling wide on the win. Where’s that infernal Irish ? ” outside at the bend ; but he had made They found the jockey just as the up considerable leeway. He could not bell rang. He had been talking to win ; everybody was agreed as to that. Mr. Button, and was in search of his The effort, to say nothing of the duel mount. with his pilot, must have taken too Wiggin pulled the jockey uncere­ much out of him. “ Ten to one Octopus,” moniously aside. offered an enterprising leviathan ; but “ Dare to win, you , and I’ll shoot there was no response. you like the dog you are,” he hissed. When well in the line for home, the Then, turning on his heel, he went to leaders, who until now had made joint take up a position on the trainers’ stand. running, came back to their horses, and The pencillers were asking for a slight the issue appeared to be extremely open shade of odds about Octopus as the with an unusually exciting finish in horses filed out from the paddock on to prospect. A couple of distances from the the course, but in such unpromising post the leading quartette were almost fashion did the favourite go down to in alignment, and all four were being the post that he receded to 6 to 4 before ridden. Meanwhile Octopus, all by the field came under the starter’s orders. himself on the stands side, had been Horse and jockey, apparent^, were on pulling double. No more than half-a- anything but good terms with each dozen lengths now separated him from other. Once or twice Octopus attempted the front rank, and he was certainly an exhibition of buckjumping, and in travelling half as fast again as any of the trying to quiet him Irish essayed the opposition. Three hundred yards from extraordinary tactics of sawing his head home Irish lost his whip, and still his off, instead of endeavouring to humour mount, wide on the stand side, continued the horse, whose flanks were evidently to reduce the gap. being made to feel the spur. The favourite’s position could now be Horse and rider zigzagged their way better discerned from the stands, and to the post, where there was little or no his victory was heralded. With giant delay ; but the flag fell to a wretched strides the big chestnut was coming up start, the chief sufferer being the hand over hand. Half a distance to go favourite, by this time in a state of and only a length to make up ! Suddenly profuse perspiration. At the critical he faltered, but simultaneously one of moment Octopus had whipped round, the “ dark ’uns ”—who had stayed on and he eventually got off at a dis­ the best of those on the far side of the advantage of some ten or twelve lengths. course, and at the time held a lead of a “ Partis! ” roared the occupants of clear length—stopped to nothing. By pesage and pelouse, while a second later sheer force of habit Irish leant forward came an ominous shout of “ Four to and commenced to ride with his hands. one Octopus.” Coming out like a shot from a gun, Slow off the mark, Octopus was hope­ Octopus responded, and, getting his head lessly tailed off in the first furlong, but in front twenty yards from the chair, he lost even more ground before finally won by half a length. settling down into the long swinging As Octopus passed the judge an stride which had so much impressed his extraordinary thing happened. Even to trainer. the veriest novice it must have been THE OWNERS OF OCTOPUS 439

quite apparent, despite the fact that the proviso that the colt was to run in the first and second finished somewhat wide trainer’s name. In all he had netted apart, that there was only one in it. upwards of £1,500. From each of Yet from three different parts of the his victims Wiggin had succeeded in stand came the same stentorian cry :— obtaining 15,000 fr. on account of “ My horse wins ! ” entrance fees, training bills, travelling Wiggin was leaning over the rails. expenses, and the rest. His face was ashen grey. Mechanically Subsequently, the three owners of he turned and concentrated his gaze on Octopus met by appointment, and, after the frame above the judge’s box. Up a long conference, it was arranged that went Octopus’s number. Then, darting they should draw lots for the colt. This for the paddock gate, he disappeared being done, Octopus became undeniably among the heterogeneous collection of the property of M. Chondelait. vehicles in attendance. Wiggin’s effects produced nearly £500, and that sum was divided by the other two, each of them being left to a It was M. Chondelait who was considerable extent out of pocket. To responsible for the solution of “ L’Affaire have laid claim to the stakes of the Wiggin.” Lost in amazement at Prix de l’Echelle would have necessitated Octopus’s success, he had been roused exposure, which must have made them from his apathy by the shouting of a the laughing stock of the entire racing man three or four rows away from him— public. And not one of them wanted “ Mon cheval gagne/ ” M. Chondelait, that. If Wiggin succeeded in obtaining who in his excitement had screamed the stakes none of them ever knew it. precisely the same thing, already had Mr. Button, who was a winner over sufficient cause for anger, but this was a the race to the tune of £8,000, presented trifle too much, he thought. Irish with the promised “ monkey,” a “ What the devil do you mean ? ” he gift he repeated when Octopus, who, demanded. later, was purchased by him from In an instant the pair were arguing M. Chondelait, administered a hollow quarrelsomely as only two excited beating to the best of his year in a race Frenchmen can. However, it took but run at Longchamps at the back-end. a few minutes for M. Chondelait to learn With no hope of again obtaining his the truth. The other asserted that he licence, Irish took to drink, and in the had half a share in Octopus, of which he following winter they carried him home produced proof— a document to all dead after one of numerous nocturnal intents and purposes identical with that orgies. possessed by M. Chondelait. Years later, when the Siege of Paris But not all the murder was yet out. was a matter of history, a racing The pair proceeded post haste to La " regular ” returned to the metropolis Morlaye ; but Wiggin had been and after a visit to Roumania. In his gone, and had taken away two hastily- opinion, a certain moderately-successful packed valises. His dupes talked long trainer in that country, with a long grey into the night. beard and answering to the name of But there was still another, also a Walter Williams, was no other than the tradesman in a small way of business, chief actor in “ L’Affaire Wiggin.” Be to whom Wiggin, it transpired, had also that as it may, William Wiggin was “ sold ” a half-share in Octopus, with a never seen again on a French racecourse. THE 16TH HOLE, ST. ANDREWS Photograph by Montague Dixon & Co.

THE CALL OF THE LINKS

BY GARDEN G. SMITH

“ W ith me along the ridge of sandy down That just divides the desert from the sown.”

T h e r e is no word at this first holiday grows green and fresh again, we begin season that falls on the golfer’s ear with to long for the scenes where we have a more agreeable cadence than “ links.” never failed to find the purest and It is a pretty word in itself, but its chief healthiest enjoyment and recreation. charm is of association, for it immedi­ We are speaking, of course, of seaside ately conjures up a great vista of links. Inland “ links,” so called, in delightful scenes and an endless store parks and on commons, or carved out of none but happy souvenirs. That is of pine forest, are all very well in their the secret of golf’s fascination. Unlike way when nothing better is to be had ; most other human pleasures it leaves no but golf without the sound of the sea aftermath of bitterness. A man can never in our ears, and without the sea breeze regret the innocent, happy, and healthful in our faces and the springy sea turf days he has spent at golf on the breezy under our feet is, at its best, only a links. He returns to them again and makeshift. again as to the Pierian spring. And so The word “ links ” has great etymo­ when the winter is past and the grass logical interest. The term is a very THE CALL OF THE LINKS 441 ancient one, and one authority derives word is akin to the German “ lenken,” it from the old English hlincas— slopes, the links being the barren ground declivities. Before the low lands connecting, or linking, the shore with and valleys were drained and re-claimed the cultivated land. The application of the lower slopes of the hills were the word to ground not contiguous to cultivated in run-rig which were then the sea, of which there are only two called linces, lynches, linkis. Subse­ non-modern instances—the Links of quently, when these cultivated terraces Forth, near Stirling, and Bruntsfield on the slopes were abandoned for the Links in Edinburgh—probably arose, lower ground they became rabbit- either because, in the first instance, the warrens, and so the word “ links ” came ground was sandy and barren like the to be used for all rabbit country. This genuine links, or. in the second, because

THE 7TH GREEN, PRESTWICK Photograph by Montague Dixon & Co. derivation, however, seems a little it was used for golf. This last is the sole laboured, but, whatever its original justification for the modern use of meaning, there is no reason to doubt “ links ” to describe an inland golf that the proper signification of the word course. “ links ” is the terrain vague covered It would be hard to equal, and with sand, bents, grass, and gorse, lying impossible to beat, the six courses over between the sea-beach and the cultivated which the Amateur Championship is land which has been entirely associated, played as examples of typical golf links : for at least five centuries, in Scottish St. Andrews, Prestwick, Muirfield, Hoy- charters, statutes, and records, with lake, St. George’s (Sandwich), and rabbit warrens and golf. Perhaps the Westward Ho ! are each of them true 442 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

links, with all the characteristic features green this time. The ball rattles over the which make the real golfing environment. undulations, catches the shoulder of a They owe their pre-eminence to their hillock and sheers right round within a natural configuration which, in each few feet of the hole. It is very pretty case, is exceptionally well adapted for golf, and golf of a quality which cannot developing and exercising the highest be obtained anywhere else to the same golfing skill. All are different and make degree. The course demands very peculiar and particular demands on the straight driving, if you are to escape player’s resource. The old course of hazards and the ever-present danger of St. Andrews which, by almost universal finding your ball either behind a plateau consent, is the greatest of them all, has which you cannot surmount, or at the a unique configuration. The golfing side of one, so that you cannot stand. course is laid out over a wonderful The driver who keeps the correct line, network of low plateaus of varying however, seldom has reason to complain shapes and sizes, intersected by narrow of his treatment at St. Andrews. Apart and shallow gulleys running at all angles. from its intrinsic excellence, St. Andrews Most }f the putting greens are placed on links must always have a supreme these plateaus, and to pilot the ball fascination for the golfer. Most of the among them and clear of the numerous ground which he plays over has been bunkers, many of which are concealed used for golf from time immemorial, and requires not only the highest golfing some of the actual greens are at least a skill but a topographical knowledge that hundred years old. Certainly there is can only be acquired by long experience no course in the world with such a of the course. At most of the holes the continuous golfing history. plateau on which the putting green is Prestwick, the next oldest of the found is so narrow, and the ground is Scottish Championship courses, is a mere usually so keen, that the pitched approach child in comparison, for although golf is extremely dangerous, and the best was certainly played in its neighbourhood local players almost invariably run their in the early Stuart times, most of the approaches. present course is of comparatively Probably no living player is so modem construction. Here the con­ intimately acquainted with the course figuration is totally different. It is as Mr. John L. Low, and to see him play a links of the mountainous variety round is an education. He knows so intersected by high sierras of benty well what is going to happen to a running dunes, and even in its flatter parts the ball at some of these complicated ground is much more undulating than approaches that you will often see him St. Andrews. Its chief features are the dispatch his ball, with a flick from a famous “ Cardinal ” bunker at the third straight-faced iron, down a gully which hole, the “ Himalayas,” the great sandy does not appear to run anywhere near range of hills which has to be crossed the direction of the play. You play your at the fifth and eleventh holes, and the own straight pitch. You did not see “ Alps,” a high mound with a wide what happened to Mr. Low’s ball, but bunker beyond it, which guards the when you get to the green it is lying 17th hole. The course is characterised within comfortable holing distance, and by great variety and, unlike St. Andrews, your own, pitching just a foot short of it makes a great demand on a player’s the plateau, has been stopped by the ability to pitch the ball accurately in bank and lies in the gully below. Then approaching. It calls also for long and at another hole, you play a pitch on to straight driving, and the bunkers are so the green and go too far. Mr. Low plays formidable that any mistakes are nearly his usual flick, away to the left of the always severely punished. THE CALL OF THE LINKS 443

The Honourable Company’s Course at greens are fast becoming perfect. In Muirfield is the youngest of all the these crowded days the members of Championship courses, and that is Prestwick and Muirfield are to be envied perhaps one reason why it has not yet in their possession of such magnificent obtained the same reputation as some courses where they may enjoy golf at of the others. As originally laid out it its best in peace and quietness. certainly left something to be desired, Hoy lake, the nursery of the great but for the past ten years or so, as the amateur players, Messrs. John Ball and Open Championship scores show, it now H. H. Hilton, is certainly one of the best yields to none in point of difficulty. The of the championship courses. At first links suffers somewhat in appearance, sight it certainly looks very flat and although very little in actual play, from except at the far holes it has almost

THE 4TH AND I4.TH GREENS, MUIRFIELD Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency the presence of a confining stone wall; an inland aspect. Closer acquaintance but this apart, Muirfield affords a fine tends to dissipate these early impressions. test of golf. There are no great features The ground is full of undulations, and in or land marks on the course, but the parts the configuration closely resembles surface is finely diversified with natural St. Andrews. The holes are extremely undulations and hillocks, and there are well-planned, if we may except the two plenty of bunkers and other hazards. shortest ones which have a “ made ” As Muirfield is a private course it gets look and lack character, but the majority comparatively little play so that the of the others require strong and skilful turf has been a long while consolidating, play, and the course is a wonderful, but its primal softness has now all but all-round test of the game. A feature disappeared and the fairways and putting which some find objectionable is the 444 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE presence of a good deal of “ out of difficult and different, and whether we bounds ” in close proximity to the course ; are bracing ourselves for a stiff carry it must be remembered, however, that against the wind or attempting a tricky without this same “ out of bounds,” acting approach the interest never flags. as a continuous hazard, many of the holes Personally we greatly regret the would be robbed of their chief difficulty. abandonment of the old “ Maiden ” A more reasonable criticism is that most hole which afforded one of the most of the punishment at Hoylake is reserved unique tee shots in the world, and for pulled balls, though this defect has of without denying the merits of the new late been greatly remedied by the 17th, we can even find it in ourselves construction of numerous bunkers to to regret the disappearance of the old

THE 9 TH GREEN, HOYLAKE Photograph by Montague Dixon & Co. catch the slicer who formerly went “ Punchbowl.” This also was a distinct scot-free. feature, a hole with individuality, and Those who like Prestwick will if the worst approach sometimes got certainly also like the St. George’s nearest to the pin, we never saw a really Course, Sandwich, another happy private good shot very far from it. But at the course, for there they will find the same present day the craze is all for equity— adventurous golf. The Kentish course and monotony. The new “ Maiden,” is holds first place in the affections of m any still a good short hole, and one is and certainly there is no links which thankful that, so far, no sacrilegious can offer a better day’s golfing enjoy­ hand has been laid upon “ Hades.” ment. There is a remarkable variety And now we come to the last and about the golf there. Every shot is newest chosen of the championship THE CALL OF THE LINKS 445

greens, Westward Ho ! One is safe to approacher has also plenty of oppor­ say that but for its inaccessibility the tunities. It is rich in every class of famous Devonshire links would have hole and all are so good that it is difficult had the championship long ago. It to say that anyone is better than another. was the first of the great English courses Westward Ho ! is a welcome addition and its outstanding merits were well- to the Championship rota. known to the cognoscenti. But to the On these six championship links the majority of the competitors and holiday golfer will find golf at its best, spectators at the Championship last and happy is he if he can spend his year its magnificent capacities came Easter or Whitsuntide at any of them. as a revelation. Certainly great But there are many other seaside links alterations and improvements have been where the golf is equally enjoyable and

THE MAIDEN GREEN, SANDWICH

Photograph by Montague Dixon & Co. made in the last two or three years, but hardly if at all inferior in quality. There the grand golfing character of the links is the magnificent new Prince’s course would make it a championship course at Sandwich, which some of the best with almost any disposition of the holes. judges say is unsurpassed in the There is a sense of space and bigness Kingdom. Then there is Deal close by, about Westward Ho ! which is very one of the Open Championship courses, inspiring. The contours are bold and another grand links, and Rye the best sweeping, and it is neither hummocky on the South Coast, and also in the front nor hilly. The rushes also provide a rank of golfing greens. On the East unique hazard and the turf is of the true Coast there are Felixstowe, Aldeburgh, golfing quality. If it is emphatically Finton and Skegness, all charming a course for the long driver, the skilful seaside links, and in Scotland, the East 446 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

Lothian, Fifeshire, Forfarshire, Aber­ For those who are meditating a deenshire coasts are studded with famous continental golfing holiday by the sea­ greens. In the far north are Lossie­ side, there is now a wide choice of first- mouth, Nairn and Dornoch, and, on the class golf links at no great distance from West Coast, Islay, Tumberry and Troon. these shores. In Belgium there is Liverpool has many fine seaside links Knocke, a delightful golf resort, and nearer than Hoylake, and the Welsh and Lombartzyde (Nieuport Bains), the

THE 8TH HOLE, WESTWARD HO ! Photograph by Montague Dixon & Co.

Cornish seaboards from Conway to finest natural seaside links on the Llanwrst and Newquay are also plenti­ Continent, close to Ostend. In France fully endowed with excellent links. In there are Dieppe, Wimereux, Hardelot, Ireland and the Channel Islands the and Le Touquet, near Boulogne ; Dinard holiday golfer will find equally good golf, and Etretat. Those who go to Paris can and perhaps a clearer green, than he will have the best of inland golf at La get anywhere on the English and Scottish Boulie, Versailles, and at classic coasts. Fontainebleau. SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Fixtures for April.

1 TUES—-A n g l i n g : ~ Thames trout fishing 14 MON—C r o q u e t : Mentone Gold Medal begins. K e n n e l : Manchester Dog Show. Tournament. O t t e r H u n t i n g begins about M o t o r B o a t R a c i n g : Nice. P o i n t -t o -P o i n t : this date. P o i n t -t o -P o i n t : Wirral Hunt. South Hereford and Ross Hunts. R a c i n g : R a c i n g : Mullingar ; Folkestone ; Uttoxeter. Lincoln, Lincolnshire Handicap ; Hawthorn Hill ; Croom. 1 5 TUES —A gricultural S h o w : Royal Dublin Society, opens. R a c i n g : Newmarket ; 2 W ED— Kennel : Manchester Dog Show. U ttoxeter. M o t o r B o a t R a c i n g : Nice. P o i n t - t o -P o i n t : Meynell Hunt ; Stevenstone Hunt ; 2nd Royal 16 W E D — A gricultural S h o w : Royal Dublin Engineers (Aldershot). R a c i n g : L in coln ; Society. P o i n t -t o -P o i n t : West Kent Hunt. Clonmel; Hawthorn Hill; Tarporley; Banbury. R a c i n g : Newmarket; Retford ; Cheltenham.

3 T H U R S — A gricultural S h o w : Douglas (I.O .M .). P o i n t -t o -P o i n t : Lady Gifford’s 17 THURS —A gricultural S h o w : R oyal Harriers (near Chichester) ; Royal Naval Hunt Dublin Society ; R a c i n g : Newmarket ; Club (Garth County) ; Ludlow Hunt. R a c i n g : Cheltenham ; Rothbury ; Woore Hunt. Liverpool, Liverpool Spring Cup ; Chelmsford ; Kilmallock. 18 FRI —A gricultural S h o w : Royal Dublin Society closes. R a c i n g : Derby; Eglinton 4 FR1 —A t h l e t i c s : Fettes College Sports. Hunt (Bogside); Household Brigade (Hawthorn R a c i n g : Liverpool, Grand National Steeple­ H ill). chase.

5 SAT— A t h l e t i c s : Fettes College Sports ; 1 9 SAT —A t h l e t i c s : A. A. A. Long-distance Ten Miles’ Championship of Scotland (Parkhead, Championships (Stamford Bridge). F o o t b a l l : Glasgow). F o o t b a l l : Association : England Association : F.A. Cup, final. R a c i n g : D erby; v. Scotland (Chelsea) ; Arthur Dunn Cup, final. Eglinton Hunt (Bogside) ; Household Brigade H o c k e y : Ireland v. England. L a c r o s s e : (Hawthorn Hill) ; Hooton Park; V.W.H. h o o t i n g County Championship. P o i n t -t o -P o i n t : H unt. S : Hare Shooting ends. County Down Staghounds (Ballyhaft) ; R a c i n g : Liverpool. 21 MON— R a c i n g : Colwall Park ; Quorn Hunt (Loughborough) ; United Border Hunt (Kelso). 7 MON—C r o q u e t : Mentone Club Silver Medal H andicap. P o i n t -t o -P o i n t : Warwickshire 22 TUES—R a c i n g : Epsom, Great Metropolitan Hunt ; Army Service Corps (Garth Country). Stakes ; Kildare and Irish National Hunt R a c i n g : Nottingham ; Shirley. (Punchestown) ; Bridgnorth; United Border Hunt (Kelso). 8 TUES — A gricultural S h o w : Munster (Cork). P o i n t -t o -P o i n t : North Warwickshire Hunt ; 23 W ED —A t h l e t i c s : L.A.C. Meeting (Public Rifle Brigade (East Essex Country) ; East Schools Sports). R a c i n g : Epsom, City and Sussex Hunt. R a c i n g : Nottingham ; Curragh, Suburban Handicap ; Pontefract ; Kildare and Sedgefield ; Chepstow ; Aldershot. Irish National Hunt (Punchestown) ; Isle of Wight Hunt. 9 W E D —A gricultural S h o w : Munster (Cork). P o i n t - t o -P o i n t : Cheshire Hunt; East Corn­ 24 THURS —-R a c i n g : Lingfield ; Pontefract ; wall Hunt ; Ledbury Hunt (Redmarley) ; Ludlow Club ; Isle of Wight Hunt. Carmarthenshire Hunt ; East Devon Hunt. R a c i n g : Warwick ; Curragh ; Sedgefield ; 2 5 FRI —R a c i n g : Sandown Park ; S tockton ; Aldershot; Bungay; Melton Hunt; Glamorgan Leopardstown ; Ludlow Club. Hunt. 26 SAT — A t h l e t i c s : Southern Counties’ Road 10 THURS —A gricultural S h o w : Castle Walk Championship ; Dollar Institution Sports. Douglas. P o i n t - t o -P o i n t : North Hereford F o o t b a l l : Rugby : Northern Union Cup, Hunt ; South Wold Hunt. R a c i n g : Warwick ; final. M o t o r C y c l i n g : British Motor Cycle Croxton Park ; Curragh ; Bungay ; Beaufort Club Meeting(Brooklands). R a c i n g : S tock ton ; Hunt. Phoenix Park ; Sandown Park. 11 FR I— P o i n t - t o -P o i n t : Staff College Drag o l o Hunt (Garth Country). R a c i n g : Newbury ; 28 MON—-P : Ranelagh Handicap Tourna­ Bangor ; Carmarthenshire Hunt. m ent. R a c i n g : Stratford and Avon ; Trim.

12 SAT— A t h l e t i c s : Melrose F.C. Sports. 29 TUES— K e n n e l : Ayr Dog Show. R a c i n g : F o o t b a l l : Association : F.A. Amateur Cup, Newmarket ; Fermoy. final; Scottish Cup, final; A.F.A. Cup, final. L a c r o s s e : N orth v. South (Lord’s). P o i n t - 30 W E D — H u n t i n g : Fox Hunting ends. t o -P o i n t : Burstow Hunt (near Outwood). K e n n e l : Ayr Dog Show. R a c i n g : N ew ­ R a c i n g : Newbury, Newbury Spring Cup ; market, 2,000 Guineas Stakes ; Dundalk ; Dumfriesshire Hunt. H exham . MOTORING NOTES

BY W. G. ASTON

THE BENZOL S e r io u s as the fuel To a certain extent this means the QUESTION question is at the present wasting of energy ; but on the other hand moment, and even more it does at least mean also that by the serious though it threatens to be in the time the argument is over we shall know immediate, and quite possibly the distant, pretty well all that there is to know future as well, nevertheless one can about all the various kinds of fuel. Not extract a certain modicum of humour that that is likely to bring us much from the present situation, with regard comfort for some little time to come, especially to the positions which have whatever the potentialities of benzol been taken up in connexion with this and alcohol, for it is at least certain matter by the two great technical journals, that they are not to be obtained in any the Autocar and the Motor. The latter has reasonable quantity at present, so that certainly earned the thanks of all we shall all have to continue to pay motorists for being early awake to the the inflated prices for our spirit, and developments of this fuel question. It we may as well make up our minds to accordingly interested itself very much look as pleasant as possible whilst doing in the production of Benzol, and has so. At the moment of writing petrol is subsequently published articles to show 1/9 a gallon in London and a shade more that it clearly pins its faith to this type in various parts of the country. Opinions of fuel, as the means whereby we shall differ as to when it will go up to half-a- be relieved from the present fuel prices. crown, but no one seems to have any The Autocar, on the other hand, has doubt whatever that it will not be long taken a diametrically opposite view, and before it does so. In the past it used far from holding a brief for Benzol has to be possible to leave the petrol account had little difficulty in convincing itself, almost completely out of the considera­ and a good many others as well, that tion when totting up the running cost this particular fuel can offer at most only of a car. Very few fair-sized cars a partial alleviation of the trouble. nowadays do more than 15 or 16 miles Thus, we have two large opposing forces to the gallon. So that already the item approaching a big question from different of 2d. a mile for fuel alone is quite an sides, which is very reminiscent of the ordinary one. Further, much harm may principles which govern Party Politics. be done by the increased cost of fuel, MOTOR NOTES 449 and no-one will deny that although the number of non-self-supporting institu­ increase is small it is enough to make tions can only be of benefit to those who some slight difference to the sales of cars. are lucky enough to get jobs connected One may extract a crumb of comfort with them. What we want is weight of from the situation in reflecting that the representation, and not number of common danger has succeeded in bringing representatives. together, to a limited extent, the great One had hoped that the train of rival motoring institutions. That they burning comment and criticism which will after all this is settled see the benefit was first set fire to by Mr. W. Yarworth of combining is scarcely to be hoped for, Jones, with his Unofficial Tyre Trial,

MR. PERCY LAMBERT ON THE WONDERFUL 25 H.P. TALBOT SETTING UP THE WORLD’S RECORD OF 103 MILES IN 6 0 MINUTES AT BROOKLANDS

but it is nevertheless possible. In the mean­ would have resulted in some lasting time there is some little indication that conflagration, under which old grievances we may have to put up with still another might have disappeared. One of the representative body, which, of course, biggest of these against the R.A.C. was could not possibly have the faults of the its lack of attention to the matter of others. So at least one may gather from legislation connected with the imposts the correspondence columns of the upon second-hand and old cars. The technical journals. It is most sincerely Club has recently decided to do some­ to be hoped that no such thing as this thing in this matter ; but it is to be will come about, because, if it does, it feared that its efforts will not meet with will simply make confusion worse much public approval. They are alto­ confounded, and any increase of the gether too mild, and very much open to THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE ADVERTISER To Sell That ca r ! ------SEND IT T O ------

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A Car that can survive this phenomenal ordeal will take you up the stiffest hills without faltering, and reveal an enduring disregard for arduous service. We have published a Souvenir Album illustrating the 50 miles world's record run of the 25 h.p. Talbot at Brooklands on Feb. 8th. Write for a free copy. CLEMENT TALBOT, Ltd., Barlby Road, Ladbroke Grove, LONDON, W. MOTOR NOTES 451 objection as to their form. The idea is to to everyone. Apart from this, however, relieve by some 50 per cent, the duty the R.A.C. appear to have lost sight of on old cars manufactured before a certain the fact that, when you want to get any long-distant date, it being at the same relief from the Treasury, you must not time pointed out to the Treasury that only ask for more than you expect to get, the increased revenue from the petrol but must keep on asking for it. Possibly tax due to the fuel which such cars will the Club feels that it would lose some consume will more than make up for the dignity by adopting such a course, but slight loss in the direct taxation revenue ; it may be argued that it would lose more and further, that with the smaller tax dignity, and prestige as well, if it failed to pay several cars will be put into com­ to bring about any marked improvement mission which would otherwise simply in the present unfair taxation conditions.

A RELIEF FROM MOTORING remain idle. This is all very well in its If anyone connected with the foreign way, but what the Public undoubtedly motor industry had any lingering doubt want is a proportionate and equable as to the supremacy of British automo­ arrangement which does not involve any bile design, these must have certainly arbitrary dates. What it, in fact, wants been removed by the wonderful perform­ to do (or perhaps it would be fairer to ance put up by the 25 h.p. Talbot car say, has the least objection to doing) is in covering no less than a distance of to have a tax which is a percentage of 103 miles in one hour at Brooklands. the value of the car, and not dependent Nowadays one realises that engine upon an absolutely fallacious estimation dimensions are, as far as actual power of Horse Power. This scheme, in con­ is concerned, becoming of less and less junction with the petrol tax, gives equity importance. But the fact remains that

DI) 452 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE no car of anything like approaching this a figure no one can say is unreasonable, horse power has come near equalling this especially as the car in the Trial was a performance. One may prophesy fairly large and heavy one. For smaller and safely that this record will stand for some lighter cars the tyre costs would be, considerable time unless the Talbot of course, proportionately less. The people improve on it themselves. But Challenge Rubber Mills, which originated in any case they have the gratification and organised the Trial, have earned the of knowing that theirs is the first car to thanks of everyone interested for showing cover the classic distance of 100 miles in just how such a thing ought to be done. the classic time of 60 minutes. There has never been from the start to The photograph reproduced on this the finish the slightest suggestion of page shews this wonderful car in its unfairness in any of the conditions. On flight, in the middle of its record attempt. the contrary, the organisers have always shown themselves ready to give their THE Because the great Un­ opponents every possible benefit of any TYRE TRIAL official Tyre Trial has been doubt that might crop up in the course RESULT organised and carried out of running. By its absolute straight­ with such fairness, and in forwardness and honesty of purpose the such a thoroughly sporting spirit, every­ Unofficial Trial has disarmed all critir' n, one will congratulate Mr. W. Yarworth and will no doubt go down in histc s Jones upon the success which has been a really classic event. At all eve -t attained by the Challenge Rubber Mills was the first to give us a y with their Victor Tyres, which are the authoritative information upon tyr mr winners of what has been one of the and reliability. As might hav ecn most interesting and informative trials deduced, from the manner in w' the ever held. It will be remembered that trial has been carried out, Mr. T rth in the first round of the test, in which Jones is a thorough sportsman the steel tyres were tried out, the Victor photograph reproduced here tes tyre was the winner ; but in the second him in one of his favourite o ms. round, for grooved tyres, it ran third. * * * * In the final round, for plain covers, it a v o n No firm has ever hr .Her won hands down, as the Victor cover t y r e s reputation for exc ce of has seen the collapse of all the others, material and hard-we quality at various mileages. At the time of of its tyres than the Avon Indiarubber writing this cover is still running, and Co., Limited, of Melksham, Wiltshire. will be kept on the road until it collapses, This firm manufactures all kinds of tyres after which the committee will issue their for cycles, motor-cycles and motor-cars, report. Very interesting reading it will heavy motor vehicles, and also tyres for make. When the last of the rival covers horse-drawn vehicles in very large variety. had given up the ghost the total mileage An interesting booklet dealing with the covered by the three Victor tyres was latter type of tyre, and also with such 12,018, a really remarkable figure, as it accessories as rubber mats, brake blocks, represents an average of over 4,000 spring buffers, etc., showing some miles per cover, which works out at hundreds of different tyre sections, is something under three farthings per to be obtained on application to the mile or 3d. per mile for the four wheels, firm. A PRIZE COMPETITION.

T he Proprietors of the Badminton Magazine offer a prize or prizes to the value of Ten Guineas each month for the best original photograph or photographs sent in representing any sporting subject. Competitors may also send any photographs they have by them on two conditions : that they have been taken by the sender, and that they have never been previously published. A few lines explaining when and where the photographs were taken should accompany each subject. Residents in the country who have access to shooting-parties, or who chance to be in the neighbourhood when hounds are ning, will doubtless find interesting subjects : these will also be provided a fo otball or cricket matches, and wherever golf, cycling, fishing, skating, p or athletics are practised. Racing and steeplechasing, including Hunt M ings and Point-to-Point contests, should also supply excellent material. Photographs of Public School interest will be specially welcome. le size of the prints, the number of subjects sent, the date of sending, the mcthod of toning, printing, and mounting, are all matters left entirely to competitors. The Proprietors are unable to return any rejected matter except under special circumstances, and they reserve the right of using anything of interest that may be sent in, even if it should not receive a prize. They also reserve to themselves the copyright in all photographs which shall receive a prize, and it is understood that all photographs sent are offered on this condition. The result of the April competition will be announced in the June issue. THE FEBRUARY COMPETITION The prize in the February competition has been divided among the following competitors :— Mons. G. Romdenne, Brussels ; Mr. Charles Breach, Eastbourne ; Mr. W. J. Abrey, Tonbridge ; Mr. F. McDonnell, Upper Rathmines, Dublin ; Mr. H. Simpson, Kenilworth Court, Putney ; Mr. Carslake Winter-Wood, Hareston, Paignton, South Devon ; Mr. C. E. Burdekin, Lower Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand; Mr. Will Cadby, Borough Green, Kent ; Mrs. Murray, Dawson Place Mansions Hotel, Bayswater; and Mr. J. H. Franklin, Royal Naval College, Osborne, Isle of Wight.

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RACING AT OSTEND Photograph by Mons. G. Romdenne, Brussels

RUGBY FOOTBALL. EASTBOURNE COLLEGE V. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, AT EASTBOURNE Photograph by M r Charles Breach, Eastbourne PRIZE COMPETITION 455

R.H.A. POINT-TO-POINT AT DUNTON GREEN Photograph by Mir. W. J. Abrey, Tonbridge

HOCIKEY IN DUBLIN Photograph by Mr. F. McDonnell, Upper Rathmines, Dublin 456 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

OVER THE BOARDS AT HURLINGHAM Photograph by Mr. H. Simpson, Kenilworth Court, Putney

MEET OF THE HALDON HARRIERS AT COMPTON CASTLE, NEAR TORQUAY Photograph by Mr. Carslake Winter-Wcod, Hareston, Paignton, South Devon PRIZE COMPETITION 457

TENT PEGGING AT THE MILITARY TOURNAMENT, CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND Photograph by Mr. C. E. Burdekiin, Lower Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand

THE INTERNATIONAL CURLING BONSPIEL AT MORGINS-LES-BAINS GENERAL VIEW SHOWING SUN S 4CREENS TO KEEP THE HOUSES IN THE SHADE Photograph by Mr. Will Cadby, Borough Green, Kent 458 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

M E E T OF LORD PORTMAN’s HOUNDS AT MOTCOMBE, DORSETSHIRE Photograph by Mrs. Murray, Dawson Place Mansions Hotel, Bayswater

GETTING INTO LINE FOR A PONY RACE ON THE MARSA, MALTA Photograph by the Rev. C. S. Leslie Alford, Chaplin to H .M . Forces, Strada Magazzeni, Floriana, Malta PRIZE COMPETITION 459

EASTBOURNE COLLEG 1E V. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, AT EASTBOURNE Photograph by M r. Charles Breach, Eastbourne

TEACHING BEGINNERS TCO SKI IN THE BERNESE OBERLAND Photograph by Mrs. A. C . Smith, Marine Parade, Sheerness 460 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

PONY GYMKHANA IN THE COTTESMORE COUNTRY. MUSICAL HURDLES COMPETITION Photograph by Mr. Charles F. Noel, The Old House, Little Bowden, Market Harborough

A d a y ’ s BAG. BEAR SHOOTING IN POONCH STATE, KASHMIR Photograph by Miss Fraser, 1 he Residency, Kashmir, India PRIZE COMPETITION 461

THE START FOR A RACE AT THE SECOND WINTER MEETING OF THE KHEDIVIAL SPORTING CLUB, CAIRO Photograph by Mr. B. Nichols, Eldon Road, Hampstead

FIVES MATCH AT CHARTERHOUSE. ETON V. CHARTERHOUSE Photograph by Mr. Charles H. Young, Verites, Charterhouse, Godalming 462 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

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WAIT I \G FOR A ROLL IX. HOCKEY OX THE ICE AT ST. CERGUE, SWITZERLAND Photograph by Mrs. Murray, Dawson Place Mansions Hotel, Baysiva/er

EASTERN COUNTIES OTTER HOUNDS UNVANNING Photograph by Mr. W. J. Abrey, Tonbridge PRIZE COMPETITION 463

JUMPING AT BALDOYLE, DUBLIN Photograph by Mr. F. McDonnell, L' pper Rathmines, Dublin

HOCKEY AT MARLBORIOUGH. A HOT SHOT AND WELL SAVED Photograph by Mr. D. R. Keith, F. House, The College, Marlborough 464 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE

ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, OSBORNE V. ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD. “ A TRITON AMONG THE MINNOWS Photograph by Mr. J. H. Franklin, Royal Naval College, Osborne, Isle of Wight

WINTER SPORTS Photograph by Mons. G. Romdenne, Brussels