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damage are often great. Learn to know seeds and newly 

 sown crops. Remember turnips are as valuable as pine- 

 apples. A good deal of your happiness will depend on your 

 mount ; more of this anon, but start on a made hunter if 

 possible. I mean a sensible, clever old boy who knows all 

 about the game. He will have to take care of the bigger 

 fool of the two. You will learn more quickly on a staid old 

 horse than on a more showy and less experienced animal. 

 Above all, do not have anything to do with a kicker ; a 

 horse which kicks will do more damage in a second than 

 a season's repentance will atone for. What a dreadful thing 



,Lu 



MONEY CANNOT REPLACE A GOOD HOUND. 



it would be to kick the sacred person of the Master, or even 

 his horse, but the final and complete, never-to-be-forgiven, 

 crime would be to kick a hound, to kill him and spoil his 

 chances of handing on those splendid and wonderful qualities 

 with which his carefully chosen parentage has endowed him. 

 Money cannot replace a good hound. Hounds have very little 

 idea of getting out of the way, not being frightened of being 

 kicked, as hunt servants' horses are always quiet with them. 

 If by any chance you must ride a kicker, tie a red ribbon to his 

 tail and keep out of everyone's way. To ride a kicker is 



