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fly places no gates, the snake or worm- fence 

 (which is one rail laid on the end of an- 

 other) is taken down to let the mare pass 

 through, and the foal follow ; but, as it is 

 usual to leave two or three rails untaken 

 down, which the mare leaps over, the foal, 

 unwilling to be left behind, follows her ; so 

 that, by the time it is one week old, it has 

 learned to leap three feet high ; and pro- 

 gressively, as it grows older, it leaps higher, 

 till, at a year old, it will leap its own 

 height. There are part of the horses raised 

 by a description of men having only orie 

 mare, which the owner or his wife rides to 

 market once or twice a week to sell truck: 

 therefore the foal is a traveller from its first 

 existence. 



To return to hunting. The season for 

 this diversion is short ; it being a y con- 

 tinued frost from December to April : 

 but the hounds hunt in such weather as 

 would deter an Englishman from even 

 making the attempt. Probably on account of 

 the woods preventing the effects of the frost. 



