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with harriers, can ride well, and who is supplied with 

 suitable hunters which she can thoroughly control, to 

 learn to hunt in that country. She will there get the 

 best possible instruction in hunt discipline and see the 

 game correctly played, which is far better for her than 

 graduating in a country where people ride to holloas, 

 where the Master is unable to control his field, and 

 where hounds are interfered with in their work by 

 ignorant or careless sportsmen. Besides, if she made 

 her debfit in a country which is badly hunted, she would 

 learn a great deal that she would have to unlearn, if 

 she should ever desire to hunt in Leicestershire. A 

 Leicestershire field may be divided into four classes : 

 the first flight people who show the way, ride com- 

 paratively straight and require no lead ; the second 

 flighters, who use the first flighters as their skirmishers 

 and follow them as straight as they can ; the third 

 flighters (to which class the hunting tyro ought to 

 belong while getting to know the country), who ride 

 through gates and gaps and over small fences ; and the 

 fourth flighters, or macadamisers, who, like Jorrocks, 

 "are 'ard riders, because they never leave the 'ard 

 road." 



The lady who is a capable horsewoman, which I 

 need hardly say she ought to be before she attempts to 

 hunt in any country, should, if she wishes to ride in 

 Leicestershire, get as much practice as possible over 

 ridge and furrow (Fig. 130), in order that she may 

 be able to gallop easily and comfortably over it when 

 hunting ; for those who are unaccustomed to deep 



