And safe into Landsman’s Drift galloped at length.

And all I remembered was, “Now it is done;

I was first with the news of the victory won;

And no voice but will praise this long gallop of mine,

When ’tis talked of at breakfast or over the wine.”

Odd Fish (Mr. Charles McIntyre).


How I won the Challenge Shield.

I sprang to the saddle and Wheeler and Lea;

I treadled, Lea treadled, we treadled all three: