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is really an edition in volume form of the lectures 

 delivered by the author in the Army Veterinary 

 School at Aldershot. One thing, however, I would 

 impress upon my readers, namely, that a good tree- 

 maker can easily earn from ^3 to £4. a week. Hence 

 the impossibility of getting a good saddle at a low 

 figure is apparent. If economy be an object, I would 

 prefer to buy a second-hand saddle made by a 

 good firm than a new saddle made by an unknown 

 firm. 



The difference between a hunting establishment at 

 the beginning and a hunting establishment at the 

 end of the century can hardly be better exemplified 

 than by a consideration of the relations between 

 master and man, whether the master be an M.F.H. 

 and the man a huntsman, or the master an ordinary 

 hunting man and the man his groom. It is an open 

 question now whether or not Tom Moody, Squire 

 Forrester's celebrated drunken huntsman, was a type 

 of his class at the beginning of the century. Mr. 

 Surtees used to draw his characters from life, and he 

 has given us the drunken huntsman Pigg, in Handley 

 Cross, and Tom Towler, Mr. Waffles' huntsman at 

 Laverick Wells, in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. But 

 much as we may admire and laugh over the writings 

 of Mr. Surtees, it must be admitted by his greatest 

 admirers that he took his characters from the lower 

 strata of society. He could describe a Tom Moody, 

 but he could never have described a Charles Davis. 

 Yet these two men, so different in character, may be 



