INTRODUCTION 



or riding to the Spinny Meet in all the 

 splendours of new " Pink." 



To horse and rider alike, there is nothing 

 so enjoyable as a good gallop in the early 

 morning. Watch your mount as you jog along, 

 observe him drinking in the fresh morning air 

 as you cross some stubble field. The very 

 birds welcoming you with their chirruping ; 

 before you the wooded hill-side, and as you 

 ascend through their silhouetted forms, come 

 the first rays of the rising sun to greet you. 

 As you reach the top, turn in your saddle — 

 look back — look down on the peaceful scene, 

 the hedge-rows, as through no abstract forms, 

 swaying in the purple shadow — and the little 

 Hamlet ye have left, with the smoke of its 

 chimneys rising up, as a new offering. 



So drink it all in, and impart the spirit to 

 your mount. Between horse and rider, there 

 is some mysterious current, some circuit which 

 conveys your feelings, and makes you both as 

 one. The confidence you have, so has your 

 equine friend. 



Watch your hunter at the ** draw." The 

 pack have entered the wood, all is still, save 



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