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to intemperance is, of course, out of the question in 

 this capacity. He will be stopping to refresh on 

 the road home, and then bring your horse on the 

 rest of the way at too fast a pace. You should 

 give him strict injunctions never to exceed the 

 hunt servants' jog of six miles an hour, either 

 going to covert or returning. The stud groom 

 should judge of this last point by the state of the 

 horse on his return. 



Knowledge of the country will come to any 

 intelligent man after a season or two. Until he 

 has attained this joii should insist on his sticking 

 to the hunt second horsemen ; and it would be no 

 bad thing, in the interests either of sport or of the 

 farmers, if this was made a universal rule. 



I should regard with grave suspicion any second 

 horseman who showed any fondness for jumping. 

 It is never necessary, much less desirable, for him 

 to indulge in this luxury, and he should be given 

 the clearest order to confine himself to the bridle 

 roads with which all the hunting counties I know 

 of are so well provided. 



I give below the very sensible direction sent 

 round by Mr. Fernie on this subject : 



KuLEs FOR Second Horsemen 



1. As far as possible to keep to Koads and 

 Bridle-paths. 



