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HUNTING A HEALTH!' EXERCISE. 



Not only is hunting a pleasant amusement, it is 

 also a most bracing- and salubrious exercise. It is 

 said that " the inside of an egg and the outside of 

 a horse" are more conducive to the general health 

 and happiness of man than any other two things 

 in the civilised world. There is a fund of truth in 

 the assertion, for scarcely anything is more nutritious 

 than an egg, and nothing more exhilarating than to 

 get astride a fine spirited hunter on a fresh balmy 

 morning, with "a southerly wind and a cloudy sky," 

 and start off for the meet within easy riding dis- 

 tance in the fond anticipation of a good jolly day's 

 hunting. In these days of motor locomotion it is 

 not uncommon to see gentlemen being conveyed 

 to the covert side in cars, but whether it adds to 

 the manliness of hunting is rather questionable. 



Two things are absolutely necessary in the hunt- 

 ing field to make hunting a success, viz., a thoroughly 

 good horse that can be depended upon at his fences, 

 and that the rider himself is a good and skilful horse- 

 man, so that he may know how to ride the horse 

 in order to take as little out of him as possible. 



THE BEST KIND OF HUNTER. 



There is a prevailing tendency at present to intro- 

 duce thoroughbreds into the hunting field, and there 

 is no doubt that in the open country and across the 

 upper moorlands, where speed is the essential re- 



