HUNTERS 



in the one, the highest degree of intelligence, in 

 the other, everything that is dour or stupid. 

 The lines of beauty in a hunter's head and face 

 are found in its angularity, in which the various 

 prominences of its component parts are distinctly 

 visible beneath the thin skin. The erect ears 

 with their thin cartilages, the neatly set on head, 

 the full and keen expression of the eyes, the 

 wide nostrils with their well -developed air 

 chambers, and clean underline of the jaw, are, 

 individually and collectively, points of beauty so 

 much admired by the hunting man, or at any 

 rate, by those who know what a hunter should be 

 like. The carriage of the head is as important 

 as its conformation, though it is not every 

 one that appreciates the significance of good 

 head carriage in a hunter, which, in the author's 

 opinion, is capable of being classified as good, 

 bad, or indifferent. Reviewing each of these in 

 their respective orders it may be said that good 

 head carriage comprises one that is not carried 

 either too high or too low, but in such position 

 as to give the animal a good balance in front, 

 without boring upon the hands of the rider. 

 When the head is carried too low, it predisposes 



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