But the Shanghai that greeted hia eye was certainly not the Shang. hai of to-day. The Bund that Mr, Ambrose saw was a collection of Bodowns and lean-to sheds for" the storing of goods and rubbish, There not a building left that was stand~ ing then, even the last old building to disappear from the Bund, where Pow the Sassoon building is growing, Mr. Ambrose remembers as bo-ing' the not where it is to-day. (the another even before that), but nearer the river and only four 1g were held every year, He knew all the members of the Club then and among his possessions Mx. Ambrose keeps a large photograph which includes all the well-known figures of Barnes Dallas, the two brothers Gore-Booth, Brodie Clark, Sir Robert Bredon, Henry Morrisey "Major" Ashley, 'Harry' Maitland and Marcus Wolfe. But although Mr, Ambrose knew the riding and racing men he was not interested in ponies himself, and gave up riding almost immediately. The Inst time he did ride was a ease of force majeure, when he fled from Hakone on a pack horse at the time of the Japanese earthquake, and rode for four and a half hours in an enor mous pack saddle.
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