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CHAPTER VI. 



— — — ■ " What deliglit 



To back tlie flying steed — tliat challenges 

 The wind for speed ! Seems native more of air 

 Than earth ! Whose burden only lends him fire ! 

 Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport ! 

 Who makes your pastime his ! I sit him now 

 He takes away my breath ! He makes me feel 

 I touch not earth — I see not, hear not, all 

 Is ecstasy of motion." 



Love Chase. 



Riding to Hunt and Hunting to Ride — Horsemanship inseparable from Enjoy- 

 ment of the Chase — Going a-Hunting — Price of Horses — Thorough-bred 

 versus Cock-tails — Blood, again, will tell — A Man without a Grandfather — 

 The Wendover run — Nimrod's Letter on Condition — Physic — Bleeding. 



That some ride only to hunt, while others only hunt 

 to ride, is admitted even by the members of the latter 

 class; and they, indeed, form a very large majority of 



