CHAPTER XV 



FOX-HUNTING TYPES 



THE VETERAN — THE MAN WHO HUNTS TO RIDE — THE 

 MAN WHO RIDES TO HUNT. 



" I've lost my grip, I've lost my go, 

 So now I ride in Rotten Row." 



I MAKE no apologies to the noble lord who wrote 

 the above lines for quoting them. They describe the 

 reasons given by an old friend, one of the best 

 welters who ever crossed an Irish country, for his 

 abandonment of the chase ; but the pity of it is that 

 he should have deprived himself of many years of 

 enjoyable recreation, and left untried the numerous 

 pleasures of fox-hunting that can still give delight 

 even when — 



•'The beard is grey on the cheek and the top of the head grows bare." 



It may appear difficult perhaps to one who has 

 always been aut Caesar aut nullus to realise that 

 keenest pleasure and never-ending amusement fall to 

 the lot of the sedate, elderly gentlemen on the 



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