594 HUNTERS AND HUNTING. 



Pick up one or two clean bred ones and go and try a 

 fortnight with the Piedmont Hunt; a better country you 

 never rode over, and you and your mount will have to be 

 better than the best to stay with Dulany's black-and-tans 

 when they break from beside Goose Creek, and follow a 

 stiff-necked one to the mountains twelve or fifteen miles 

 away. 



But with the best hounds, the best horses, foxes galore, 

 there is just one thing absolutely necessary, namely, damp- 

 ness, and dampness is just what America lacks. You cannot 

 expect the hound to follow the trail of a fox in a season 

 when it is impossible for a pointer to trail and locate a covey 

 of quail unless he jumps on them, and the average fall 

 weather in America is unfortunately dry. 



Remember as you are so your horse is ; whereas you can 

 tell some men's characters by their writing, some can be 

 better told by their riding. A coward heart, a coward horse; 

 a game heart, a game horse. Trust him and he respects 

 you ; and nothing is so necessary in sport, life, or pleasure, 

 as that same respect that horse and rider learn to feel for 

 each other. 



