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not built In a day ;" tliat the safety-conveyances upon 

 which they are then seated were, probably, oftener upset 

 in their time of tuition, when this horse was otherwise 

 engaged in training for the course, and that, if their equal 

 in age, he is still their junior in practice as a hunter. 



I am presuming that we are talking of quondam race- 

 horses, because, till blood-horses are bred for the express 

 purpose of hunting, there must be very few which, if 

 likely to make hunters, will not previously have been 

 considered worth the expense of training ; for weeds are 

 not in higher estimation in racing than in hunting stock, 

 and the size of a young horse very materially affects 

 his value. Another advantage which you will find in a 

 thorough-bred one is this, that he does everything in 

 a genteel way : if he falls, he has not only plenty of time, 

 but he knows hoiv to get up again; he does not lie locked 

 in the embraces of mother earth, or as though destined 

 for fructification in the soil, but he is up and ready to 

 make atonement for his mistake, and when others will 

 appear groggy, he will not be said to have been over- 

 tahen. 



'RoQXCjv a-n: avSpiov ia9\a ylyvtaOai viKfa 

 KaKuiv d' oixoia ri] (pvaei Tt) tov Trarpog. 



EUKIP. APUD StOBCEUM. 



I am not over fond of quoting " crack-jaw" upon sport- 

 ing subjects, but cannot resist the introduction of this 

 passage as another proof that in ancient, as well as in 

 modern theory, my doctrine with regard to blood held 

 good. It is a common saying wdth a friend of mine, an 



