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rise and tlic first dash of the large sahiion, fresh 

 run, wlien first he feels the hook. Lots of delightful 

 manoeuvring comes after this, but no sport comes up 

 to the bison and the fox. Never having Imnted the 

 lion, tiger, or elephant, hijDpopotamiis or rhinoceros, 

 I knoAV nothing of the chase of them. The wolf I 

 do know, and he is no more than a cowardly cur. 



As to man's seat on the saddle, I have seen the 

 look of it vary so much, and men go well over a 

 country, as far as the saddle is concerned, almost in 

 any sort of j)osition. It is impossible to lay down 

 any law regarding the form man's figure may 

 assume, although we all knoAV which in our eyes is 

 the most graceful — long stirrups or short, hands 

 high or low, bolt upright or stooping forward. I 

 have seen every attitude under the sun, and many 

 a brute to look at a '^ devil to go." The term may 

 apply, perhaps, to horse and rider, very hard to 

 miseat, very hard to pound, and almost imi^ossible 

 to beat» 



In looking at a horseman, we kliow what pleases 

 the eye ; he should be uj)right as a dart, unless 

 going at some pace which necessitates his rising in 

 the stirrups, and then, of course, he would lean a 

 little forward. The rider should seem a part of his 



