ON HUNTING. 



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pace and gates come in your way or, indeed, if you have to 

 go a bit wide to open them, do so by all means, but in a real 

 sharp " dart," when hounds are running without semblance 

 of a check, leave gates alone, unless the pack is bending towards 



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LEAVE GATES ALONE. 



you and a gate can be used with advantage and without 

 delay. Watch the leading hounds and be ready to pull up 

 if they check. Be quick to incline to the direction in which 

 they bend. If there is a little fence, jump it in preference to a 

 big one. 



Every ordinary horse wants riding differently — of this 

 more later — but our present mount just wants sitting on 

 and no more. But, good as he is, give him every chance, 



