CHAPTEE IV. 



CARRIAGE HORSES AS HUNTERS, AND HUNTERS 

 AS CARRIAGE HORSES. 



We feel that in the two preceding chapters we have 

 somewhat diverged from the main purpose of our 

 volume, inasmuch as we have placed before our 

 readers Eothschildean ideas unachievable by the 

 owners of limited incomes, who do not possess 

 landed property ; but now we must descend from the 

 exalted perch of plutocracy to the level of practical 

 economy. The novice in the hunting-field is generally 

 a man who possesses one or two horses, designated by 

 the immortal Mr Jorrocks qui tampers, i.e. horses quiet 

 to ride and drive, which the owner requires to be 

 between the shafts one day, and at the stern of hounds 

 on the next. Not only have we seen, but we have 

 ridden many horses of this description in the hunting- 

 field, and though we have not on these occasions 

 attempted to hold our own in the first flight, we flatter 

 ourselves that we saw more of the sport than the 

 "thrusting scoundrel" who would have disdained to 

 mount our humble conveyance. One of the best men 

 to hounds in the Albrighton country once told us that he 



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