Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-06-05

gallop How I longed TO see Just one good
our dear old friend, Miss EN-. White,
(she IL Mrs. now) Of Manchester, and her
gallant gray, let out 10 his full racking
speed, would make sensation even in
Rotten Row. ! should like 10 zee her make
In the carriages, on luxurious cuah ons
fair ladies and elderly gentlemen lean
back, enjoying the scene Every variety Of
livery in the coachmen and hunkies swing
ing on behind. White tights aud top boots
with black rosette in plug hat is the dis
guise Of groom on horseback, attending
his mistress AZ a respectful distance, when
she rides out alone, AZ many do. Children
on beautiful ponies, attended by groome,
lend pleasing variety TO the picture.
Here is papa giving his darling boy his
frat lesso M in riding, or holding the spir-
tied pony for his daughter by long rein,
with groom in close attendance In case
Of accident. Here IL mad-cap mise, with
a will Of her own, evidently. just flying
along, with her pony in perfect lather OF
foam, and the groom red, and perrpiring,
gslloping furiously in the rear, looking
az II he wished his young mistress were in
a milder mood. Here come two elderly
gents, irotting slowly together, talking bus
mess or politics; there a party Of three OF
four splendidly mounted ladies, In full gall
Top, with cavalier IN attendance; then an
other bevy who have had their Rallop aud
are recovering their horses by a slow walk.
Here IL the inevitable fat gentleman, red in
the face, coat tightly buttoned over stom.
ach that no tailor's art can render invisi.
bic, shifting his pig skin" heav lily; but his
gallant steed fully up 10 his weight and not
minding his load bit. And here. straight
"a an arrow, graceful a. willow, sitting
perfectly her sorrel thoroughbred with the
two white hind feet and limbed like a
deer, we have the best type Of an English
gentlewomsn on horseback. II IL worth
looking at Her horse is walking now, a
hard gait for lady, but she il equal to IL
and loses none of her grace And now the
well-trained creature breaks At gentle
touch Of the whip into a sweeping trot.
No humping nor churning, but light
spring that preserves each line Of beauty
intact. And now the fleet steed is gallop
ing ~ he would do after the hounds, were
il not Rotten Row, and the skillful rider,
holding him perfectly in hand, keeping her
seat ~ only practiced rider can do, dash
es along at speed that gives the groom in
the white tights and top boots all he can
do TO keep up. until one, as he looks on,
can only wish, az did, that she had a
he lge or a stone wall or a ditch TO 90 over;
80 thoroughly well | am sure she could do
il on that sorrel with the two white hind
feet
There you know my weakness. write
a. did when visiting Longfellow and
Ten Brock, for a horse will always be q
horse to me. Was not ! born in Ken
lucky?
We are all we'll. Praise the L0RDl /
love Him better because / love his crea-
lures. IL man love not a horse that he
has seen, how can he love God whom he
has not seem Did not nv Father make
that sorrel with his two white hind feet, as
we'll "a his fair rider? Answer me you who
cavil. may not look at the woman too
much without danger. But may at the
lovely horse. You beautiful thing Of grace
and power shall back one Landowner
than you one Of these days, white a. snow,
heeter than the wind, sapphire pavement
for his ringing hoofs. Ever in Jesus.
Gro %. RARNFa