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CHAPTER II. 



HUNTING, AND RIDING TO HOUNDS. 



Snaffle Bridle— Curb— " Brutus," " Jack o' Lantern," ''Taymouth"— 

 Useful Hint from Lord Suffolk — I^ever Frighten your Horse — 

 Ha-has — Mr. Norton, of Uxbridge — Incident in the New 

 Forest — Ladies' Horsemanship — Whyte Melville's reference to 

 the Author's " Beminiscences of a Huntsman " — Judge Talfourd 

 and the Doctor — Ladies Biding to Hounds — Men Biding to 

 Hounds — Putting a Horse at a Fence. 



I AM not sure, but I think it was the late Mr. 

 Assheton Smith who said that there was not one 

 horse in a hundred to be ridden to hounds agreeably 

 at his best in a snaffle bridle, and not one man 

 in ten thousand fit to ride hunting Avith a curb. 

 Of course, by this, it was intended to ^particularize 

 the ciu'b as combined with the snaffle and the 

 double rein. " Griffith's Patent Snaffle," at one 

 time so mistakenly puffed in the Field, is a myth 

 as far as restraint to hard pullers. In my length- 

 ened experience as rider to hounds, as well as 



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