An Australian gentleman, Mr.A.J.Sage, of Melbourne, to whom I had written asking how the saddles and styles of riding compared, answered me as follows: "With regard to saddles, here it is a moot question which is the better, yours or ours, for buck-jumpers.

Carver's boys rode in their own saddles against our Victorians in theirs, all on Australian buckers, and honors seemed easy.

Each was good in his own style, but the horses were not what I should call really good buckers, such as you might get on a back station, and so there was nothing in the show that could unseat the cowboys.

It is only back in the bush that you can get a really good bucker.

I have often seen one of them put both man and saddle off." This last is a feat I have myself seen performed in the West.