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cub-Iiunting without any serious interference with 

 the business of the day. Besides, if he can afford 

 the time to hunt, he can afford to be two hours later 

 at his business for a few mornings during the latter 

 half of September and October. If he cannot do 

 this, he should, at least, manage to get a few early 

 canters before breakfast. Even if this is denied to 

 him, as it may be to the man who has to depend for 

 his hunting upon occasional mounts from a friend, 

 he can easily improve his wind by going at a jog 

 trot for a mile before breakfast every morning for a 

 week. He will be astonished at the end of the week 

 to find how much better he feels, and what a different 

 appetite he has for breakfast; and, when he hunts, 

 his heart will not be beating against his ribs after 

 the first two minutes of a gallop. We may be laughed 

 at for inculcating such simple and necessary measures, 

 but it is wonderful how often they are neglected by 

 the novice who has not been taking violent exercise 

 during the summer and early autumn. 



Many people lay much stress on diet, but, if a man 

 be neither a glutton nor a drunkard, we do not think 

 it advisable for him to make much alteration during 

 the hunting season in the diet to which he is accus- 

 tomed, except in regard to his food on the actual 

 day on which he hunts, of which we will say more 

 anon. Sudden changes of diet are only apt to 

 disturb the digestive organs, except so far as they are 

 necessitated by the changes of the climate. For 

 example, it would be absurd for a professional man, 

 who only hunts one day a week, to live on underdone 



