The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
"BENEATH THE BOUGHS AND RAFTERS OF THE FALLEN HUMPY—KICKING, CURSING,AND SHOUTING—STRUGGLED FORTY OR FIFTY MEN."
SEE PAGE 110.
The Wide World Magazine
Vol. XXII. NOVEMBER, 1908. No. 128.
CONTENTS
Barmaid's Steeplechase.
The Greatest Horse-Race on Record.
The Promotion of Petroff.
The Humours of a Rectorial Election.
The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists.
Climbing in the "Land of Fire."
The Spider's Web.
Dolphin=Hunting.
A Tragedy of the Nile.
A White Woman in Cannibal-Land.
Recollections of a Texas Ranger.
Short Stories.
Propitiating the Weather.
The Affair at Greenville.
The Wide World: In Other Magazines.
Odds and Ends.
Transcriber's Notes.
BARMAID'S STEEPLECHASE.
By C.C. Paltridge.
The story of an exciting race, incidentally giving one a vivid glimpse of the humours of anAustralian bush meeting in the 'seventies.
I have never been a jockey, but Ihave ridden races under divers circumstances,having—as is the casewith most of us Australians—put ina considerable time in the saddleone way and another.
THE AUTHOR, MR. C.C. PALTRIDGE.From a Photograph.
My people have been mixed up more or lesswith racing ever since it started in our State—twouncles and a cousin have been crackamateurs over the "big sticks," and my brotherand myself have each done his little