A BUCKJUMPER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 75, 17 April 1901, Page 4

A BUCKJUMPER.

TwAW-onceMwught .avhorse bj Miction. "In the afternoon;',',' heSays, " 1 brought the creature into theVpl&a, and certain citizens held him by the head, and Others by the tail, while I mounted him. As soon as they let go, he placed all hi? feet in t bunch together, lowered his'back, and then suddenly arched it upward, and shot me straight into the air, 'a matter of three Or four feet. I came as straight down again, lit in the saddle, went came down almost on the high pommel, thot op again, and came down on the horse's neck all in the space of three or four seconds. Then he rose and stood almost straight up on his hind feet, and 1 clasping his lean neck desperately, slid back into the saddle, and held on. He came down, and immediately hoisted his heels into the air, delivering a vicious kick at the sky, and stood On his fore feet; and then down he came once more, and began the original exercise of shooting me straight up again. The third time I went np, I heard, a stranger say, 'Ob, don't he buck, though 1' £ While I was up, somebody struck the horse a soundthwack with a leather strap, and when I arrived again,' the horse* was not there." PEERAGES FOUNDED In olden times, the wealth and commerce of London, conducted as it was by energetic and enterprising men, was a prolific source of peerages. Thus, the earldom of Cornwallis was founded by Thomas Cornwallis, the CbeapsMe merchant; that of Essex by William Capel, the draper; and that of Craven by William Craven, the merchant tailor. The modern Earl of Warwick is not descended from " the kingmakers," but from William Grcville, the woolstapler; whilst the modern Earls of Northumberland find their head, not in the Percies, bat in Hugh Smithson, a respectable London apothecary. The founders of the families tt Dartmouth, Radnor, Ducie.and Pomfret were respectively a skinner, a silk manufacturer, a merchant tailor, and a Calais merchant; whilst the founder of the peerages of Tankerville. Dormer, and Coventry, were mercers. The ancestors of Earl Romney and Lord Dndlcy and Ward were goldsmiths'and jewellers; and Lord Dacres was a Danker in the reign of Charles 1., as Lord Overstone is in that of Queen Victoria. Edward Osborne, the founder of the dukedom of Leeds, was apprenticed to WiHian? Hewet, a rich cloth-worker on London Bridge, whose only daughter ha courageously rescued from drowning by leaping into the Thames after her, and eventually married. Among other peerages founded Dy trade are those of Fitzwilliam, Leigh, Petre, Cowper, Darnley, Hill, and Cftnington. .-af^jAti'^^A*