_Chorus of Sympathetic Bystanders._ Take him at it again, boy; you're all right!... Hold him in tighter, my lad.... Let out your reins a bit! Lor, they didn't ought to let a boy like that ride.... He ain't no more 'old on that big 'orse than if he was a fly on him!... Keep his 'ed straighter next time.... Enough to try a boy's nerve! &c., &c. [_The Boy takes the horse back, and eventually clears the gate amidst immense and well-deserved applause._ _The Morbid Man (disappointed)._ Well, I fully expected to see 'im took off on a shutter. _The Descriptive Man._ It's the water-jump next--see; that's it in the middle; there's the water, underneath the hedge; they'll have to clear the 'ole of that--or else fall in and get a wetting. They've taken all the horses round to the other entrance--they'll come in from that side directly. [_One of the Judges holds up his stick as a signal; wild shouts of "Hoy-hoy! Whorr-oosh!" from within, as a Competitor dashes out and clears hedge and ditch by a foot or two. Deafening applause. A second horseman rides at it, and lands--if the word is allowable--neatly in the water. Roars of laughter as he scrambles out._ _The Morbid Man._ Call that a brook! It ain't a couple of inches deep--it's more mud than water! No fear (_he means, "no hope"_) of any on 'em getting a ducking over that! [_And so it turns out; the horses take the jump with more or less success, but without a single saddle being vacated. The Judges award a red and blue rosette to the riders of the best and second horses respectively, and the proceedings terminate for the afternoon amidst demonstrations of hearty satisfaction from all but_ The Morbid Man, _who had expected there would have been "more to see._" * * * * * --> NOTICE.--Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule there will be no exception. * * * * * Transcriber's Note: Sundry missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired. Page 289: The caron ^ denotes a following superscript: "formula: x ([Greek: pi] + y^{n^th}) = y + x - [Greek: pi]/x". Page 291: 'Matineé' corrected to 'Matinée': "Miss Blank will make her first appearance in Juliet at a Matinée". * * * * *