Last week, during " few days' st in the country, [attended a local gymkhana several new items—or at least new to me were presented.
The Affinity Race Thad never seen before, though Tam told it ix not really novelt; tle has to mount a bat horse, dismount, place the lady m her he and ride round again with her, each holding one end of a handkerchief.
The Sandwich Cycle Race was most amusing. Competitors had to ride once round the course, dismount, eat suspended bun with their hands beh their backs, mount, and again ride round the course. The fun occurred when the bun dropped on to the grass, as_ most of them very speedily did. "Only men had entered, the ladies evidently fearing the undignified figures they might cut. as they grovelled after the refractory remnants of bun. I noticed that the umpires were very severe as to last crumbs, all of whi had to be negotiated by some means or other.
The Menagerie Race was even more ridiculous. Here again, men only competed; they had each to drive an animal—horses, donkeys, sheep, goats or sudden visit of the young Crown'Prince of Germany to our shores, it being persistently averred thata bright-eyed younger daughter of the Duke of Connaught is the attraction, The young Prince, who by the way has a particularly charming manner, is at present in Scotland visiting the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, but later on he goes to his uncle and aunt for a time. A kodak, by all accounts, appears to afford him more amusement than time-honoured sport of a heavier kind; whilst at the Carlton, he was up every morning snap-shotting Dick, Tom, and Harry on the Embankment.
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