FOX HUNTING. 6$ 



the mare stood in the hot sun Hke a statue; then 

 she began to get uneasy, resting first one leg, then 

 another, shaking her head and moving it from side 

 to side, but still the Doctor patiently sat, paying no 

 attention to her. Finding herself beaten in her 

 game of wait, and that there was to be no fight, 

 she turned her head for a look at her master, and 

 seeing he was apparently enjoying the quiet rest, 

 without further hesitation she gave up and walked 

 quietly up the hill, never after giving the Doctor 

 further balking trouble. 



"Pandora" was not a heavy-weight mare, but 

 was muscular and well put together, and she car- 

 ried Dr. Huidekoper through many a hard hunt 

 and many a closely contested race across country, 

 and the Doctor then turned the scales at more 

 than 190 pounds. 



"Pandora" won many steeple chases at the 

 club races, and she and the Doctor were hard to 

 follow in the hunting field, for "Pandora" was 

 ready to take anything, and took her jumps in a 

 rush that sent her far beyond the obstacle, be it 

 fence, ditch, or wall, and she was game to the last. 

 In one of her hunts, which lasted for hours, and 

 in which the hounds and fox were several times in 

 the same field, and it looked like a death, and the 

 hunters were riding hard for the brush, "Pandora" 

 and the Doctor stuck to it until the mare was so 



