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and blind to the blandishments and attractions of Phaedra, 

 when he had a chance of going out and putting in a 

 day's sport with Artemis ! Even Adam, we believe, 

 if he had not had such a troublesome wife, would 

 have taken on hunting in the Garden of Eden, and 

 one has always been inclined to think that, with all 

 the horses in the world at his disposal, he must have been 

 rather a muff not to have had a really top-hole stud ! What 

 would not some of us give for this misguided man's 

 chances ! Let us, however, try to think gently of Adam 

 and forgive him, because he elected to confine himself to 

 digging *' tormots " and " taters " in preference to owning 

 a stud and a pack of hounds, such as would have put Lord 

 Lonsdale and the Quorn in their smartest days to the 

 blush ! He had a hatful of worries in the house, what with 

 that pestilent Serpent, and Ev^e's nasty jealousies of a lady 

 named Lilith. Adam, however, was possibly the one 

 instance of a man who had a chance of as many horses as 

 he could possibly want and did not avail himself of it! 

 We have merely dipped into the past in this way to em- 

 phasise our point that wherever there has been a man and a 

 horse, unless Giant Circumstance is one too many for him, 

 he will devise sport of some kind or another to fill in his 

 spare time and give dull care the go-by. Paperchasing, 

 one is credibly informed, did not originate in this sporting 

 city, for there is the excellent authority of the distinguished 

 sportsman, to whom this volume has been respectfully 

 dedicated, that it flourished exceedingly beyond the border 

 in Scotland fifty or sixty years ago. This is earlier 

 than 1868, the year in which it was first inaugurated in 

 Calcutta. It is related that an old uncle of H. E. Lord 

 Minto's was once carrying the paper in a paperchase 

 organised in, we presume, the neighbourhood of the 

 country hunted by the Duke of Buccleuch's hounds, when 

 one of his constituents tried to stop him and talk politics. 



