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RIDING 



CHAPTER I 



RIDING TO HOUNDS 

 BY THE EARL OF SUFFOLK AND BERKSHIRE 



CHAPTER on 



riding to hounds 

 might easily be 

 condensed into 

 a few words of 

 excellent advice : 

 ' Read all that 

 Whyte Melville 

 has written on 

 the subject, read 

 Davenport Brom- 

 ley's "Fox-hunt- 

 ing " in his Book 

 of Sport, and you 

 shall know as 



much as printed words can teach on the 

 subject.' Yet must the volume of the 

 book of Badminton be filled, though on 



this well-worn theme a man might despair of being original, 



were he as indefatigable as an Athenian of old in his quest of 



the rt i/eov. 



As surely as every Englishman is convinced in his own 



mind that ' Between two horses which doth bear him best ' he 



