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CHAPTER yi. 



" What delight 



To back the flying steed — that 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. 



Fading to Hunt and Hunting to Eide— Horsemanship inseparable from 

 Enjoyment 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 

 the field of fox-hunters ; but nothing can be more offen- 

 sive to the feelings of any one with the slightest pre- 



