Related article: up, flies straight for the posts ; they are just too far for its aerial course to carry it through, but the aim was true, and dropping to the ground, the ball rolls, bumps, and then — who-whoop ! This is a great moment, especially if the player make the first or last goal in a match, and he is playing for a regiment or club to which he is bound by strong esprit de corps. All this is the bright side of No. 2's life, but there is another, and after Order Ethinyl Estradiol some fifteen years' ex- perience, of which considerably more than half was as No. 2, 1 may be permitted to express an opinion. First, there is the necessity of continual practice; every failure a No. 2 makes he puts down, and rightly, if he be a conscientious player, to slackness in his prac- tice. To hit a ball with conscious aim when riding at full speed requires constant practice. No natural aptitude can possibly take the place of steady work for a player in this position. It may be granted that a hand and eye 412 BAILY S MAGAZINE. LICSK well trained at other games, coupled with a fair allowance of horsemanship, Order Ethinyl Estradiol Online may serve No. 3 or No. 4 tolerably well, but No. 2 must have a stick in his hand frequently and a pony between his legs whenever his stable will allow, and practically with four good ponies, that is very often. No. 2 ponies will stand a great deal of work, for while they want condition of the best, they are better, as a rule, for not being above themselves. Of course there are exceptions, but then they are few. If you have one of those delightful animals that you can run in a half-mile scurry and then take into a game of polo, you will keep it as the apple of your eye, and Buy Cheap Ethinyl Estradiol be careful not to over- work it ; Buy Ethinyl Estradiol but there are many fine, bold, strong, straight - galloping No. 2 ponies that play better in their second ten minutes than their first, and better when they have done plenty of work than after a few days' idleness. Therefore a really ambitious No. 2 will know but little rest. The stick will be always in his hand, and when the ponies need rest, there is always the wooden horse to practise at the Purchase Ethinyl Estradiol Online goal-post from. This is hard work, but it is not all, his No. 4 will blame him for every failure in that bad five minutes while the Ethinyl Estradiol Online team is jogging off the ground and chang- ing ponies. Has No. 2 made a brilliant run, and losing his head at the end, or perhaps forgetting where the goal-posts are, hits wide ? " Look here, young man," says the more experienced player, " we do not want any of your gallery play. It pleases the ladies, but it don't win matches, and we're one goal behind now." Or again, at the close of a tournament the best of ponies will catch hold sometimes, and perchance the trusted mount has began to poll and get out of hand just as you want to bring off the critical stroke. Therefore you miss, and No. 3, who has placed the ball neatly for you, is naturally irate, and suggests that if you cannot hit the ball skittles would be an improving game. Indeed No. 2, who occupies so large a place in the eye ot the world, is the scape- goat of his own team. Even the popular favour which shouts from the stand is chequered with scorn and disapproval. The failures of No. 2, his misses and his mis- takes, are so easily seen by the critics on the stand. The man who in his own day did perhaps but little but canter gently behind and exhort others to "ride him off," giving his own particular "foe" a wide berth the while, opines " that No. 2 has gone off his game terribly," that "he ' funks ' galloping," plays " a silly, squirting game, and cannot do anything but miss the most obvious ' sitters.' " Indeed, among polo-players No. 2's position is a hard one. Envy scoffs at him, amateur criticism holds him up to scorn, the captain of his team blames him for inevitable failures. In fact, No. 2 in a team has a lot as hard as that of a M.F.H., and as in the case of that official, every- one covets his place. After all. when he thinks it all over at home, and remembers the dash and the pace and thrill and excitement of it all, he decides not to send his ponies to Tattersall's just yet, but " first to buy that pony of 's, and to go Buy Ethinyl Estradiol Online in for a bit more practice ;" and who shall say he is not right ? T. F. D. 18990 4^3 The Man-hunting Bloodhound. The experiments in Yorkshire last October, and the more recent match in Buckinghamshire, sug- gest reference to history to see •how the performances of the modern bloodhound compare with those recorded of its fathers and more remote ancestors. The Ravenscar trials, it may be re- membered, were run over lines carefully chosen to avoid streams and other natural obstacles to scent, were not over one thousand yards, and the competitors were slipped when the runner had had about ten minutes start ; in other words, on a perfectly fresh scent. These tests of the bloodhound's tracking powers were as easy as could have been devised, and the animals which took part acquitted themselves creditably. In the Buckinghamshire trials held in the last week of March, the test was certainly more severe. The courses chosen were over grass, were about five miles in length, and the runner received two hours and fifteen minutes start. The first couple of hounds, working in a high wind, succeeded in carrying the line for about four miles, and were then taken up. The rival couple, working over a fresh line in the afternoon, under more favourable scenting con- ditions, ran the course in an hour and a half. The Bucks experiment may be taken as the standard of com- parison by which to consider earlier achievements in the way of Purchase Ethinyl Estradiol tracking. Until recent years the scenting powers of this breed had remained practically uncultivated in this country, and it is instruc- tive to observe how the faculty has degenerated through disuse. Bloodhound breeders in America appear to have devoted more attention to it ; at all events, in