G8 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



rally found; they are seldom fractious or inclined to 

 waste their energies in petty ebullitions ; they are not 

 excited by trifles to an exhibition of their might ; but, 

 at the covert side, in " the park," or amidst the din of a 

 crowded race-course, preserve a dignified sobriety of 

 deportment, characteristic of their order. If, on the 

 contrary, you see what is called, probably, a very nice, 

 spicy prad, exposing himself from the moment he leaves 

 his stable, with his head in the air, till that of his return 

 to it, with his tail over his back, going backwards, or, as 

 a sailor would say, with stern-way at his fences, and 

 " kicking up a bobbery " for the sake of making " much 

 ado about nothing," you may write him down as the pro- 

 duce of the old cart-mare by some country Highflyer, 

 and may be sure, especially if in addition to all this he 

 is a nmaway, that no one remembers anything about 

 his grandsire. 



In that tremendous run of thirty miles, to which I 

 have before alluded, in which my huntsman killed one 

 very valuable mare, and completely tired two other 

 horses, my first whipper-in was carried well to the 

 end, in a good place, by a little entire thorough-bred 

 chestnut horse, of extraordinary power, measuring barely 

 fifteen hands. The Hon. E. Grimston and Mr. Daniell, 

 longo intervalloy did wonders, and kept company with 

 him to the finish ; but this little horse had gone through 

 a morning's work before the finding of an afternoon fox. 



