422 FOX-HOUND, FOREST, AND PRAIRIE. 



course leave all to them when embarked on a headlong gallop 

 over such ground : and depend on it they will not betray you. 

 The main difficulty is to sit tight — in an English saddle I 

 mean, not in an American "cow saddle" with its great main- 

 mast of a pommel standing up before you. An excellent 

 saddle, too, is the latter — for rough work and for roping 

 (by which is meant lassoing) — but not the saddle for a horse- 

 man to begin upon at forty, while again the lasso is more for 

 the cattle business than for horsework. Well — we drove in 

 the wild mare, felt all the better for the gallop, and took a 

 packhorse for the " deer-meat " in the cool of the morning. 



