A Ride on a Rearer 



IF you have never met the devil himself and feel that 

 you might enjoy the experience, the easiest way to make 

 his acquaintance is to buy a rearing horse. 



The usual method of approach is to decide that you 

 require a sound, mannerly hunter to carry you with 

 hounds next winter. There are possibly a number of 

 promising young horses in your locality, and after 

 visiting one or two of them it becomes public knowledge 

 that your needs must be provided for instantly, and all 

 your horse-loving friends inundate you with offers of 

 the very horse you require. 



You know exactly the type of hunter you need; you 

 have a mental picture of him in your brain, and still 

 determined to satisfy your fastidiousness, you decide to 

 go to a famous horse-fair. Here you will have hundreds 

 from which to pick and choose. There will be opposi- 

 tion and you may have to pay more, but you don't 

 mind. You bring a hunting friend along, for his com- 

 pany, not for his opinion; you need none other than 

 your own. 



The streets of the big town are chock-full of horses. 

 The majority of the well-bred type are unbroken and 

 would be unsuitable as the hunting season is so near. 

 You ride a few fairly-passable sorts and are nearly at 

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