The Torrance-Clendennin Episode and the Melville Letters: On Racing, Hunting, Steeplechasing, Clubs and Club Life, Etc. ...1892 - Horsemanship - 154 pages |
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Page 84 - In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
Page 94 - This heronry is situated on a river, with an open country on every side of it. The herons go out in the morning to rivers and ponds at a very considerable distance, in search of food, and return to the heronry towards the evening. " It is at this time that the falconers place themselves in the open country, down wind of the heronry ; so that when the herons are intercepted on their return home, they are obliged to fly against the wind to gain their place of retreat. When a heron passes, a cast (a...
Page 39 - Bible, (the law spoken of in the text,) declared that, if he had his life to live over again, he would spend it in the study of the Word of God.
Page 118 - ... unhandsomely persists in retaining his call, and yet refuses to let them have mounts for his stable. The fact of their not riding for the stable naturally becomes noticed to their detriment, and they are also in a great measure hindered from making engagements with other stables, who can never feel sure that they will be able to get them, seeing that this dormant prior claim is pretty certain to be interposed for a single race or so, just when they most want them. The principle on which the Jockey...
Page 132 - Always have an apron on your box; it hides a bad seat and a pair of bent knees. Sit straight on your box, with your elbows close to your side, your hands well down, your shoulders well back, your head erect, and your eyes well in front of you. Do not set your back up like a "pig in a rage...
Page 146 - Why should I marry ?' asks the celibate. ' What are the advantages that marriage will bring to counterbalance its disadvantages ? At present with my income I am well off, the club supplies me with all my wants, and my movements are unfettered. If I marry, I descend at once to be a poor man, with all the mortifications and privations of poverty. The charms of marriage are all very well, but what if they be followed by anxiety, by boredom, by disappointment) Such has been the fate of many ; why should...
Page 146 - ... matrimony was regarded as the panacea for all the ills that bachelordom was heir to, and a man married in order to have the companionship of a home. Whereas now, in that one word club, men find a safer substitute for the uncertain advantages of matrimony. ' Why should I marry ?' asks the celibate. ' What are the advantages that marriage will bring to counterbalance its disadvantages ? At present with my income I am well off, the club supplies me with all my wants, and my movements are unfettered....
Page 98 - ... and then the legs, of the animal gradually appeared above water ; and then, as the body grounded about twenty yards below on the gravelly ford, which Taylor had failed to hit, he discovered that his horse's fore-legs had been caught by the reins, and that every time he struck out he jerked his own head under water. To plunge again into the whirling stream, to unclasp his knife, cut the reins, and take a pull at Nunky's head, was the work of a second, when the brave beast jumped on his legs, and...
Page 60 - ... own running, she would be staring about on both sides for her companions ; and Gemma di Vergy was so exacting that no cat would satisfy him for company, but Joe Dawson was absolutely obliged to have a lad there with a book or newspaper all day, and another sleeping close by him at night in a stall. The habit began when he was a yearling. He climbed over a partition, no man can tell how to this day, so as to get at the window, and was espied with his feet on the window-sill, gravely looking out...