24 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



money, and perhaps for that very reason found 

 the necessity of taking more care, gradually, 

 with time and thought, came to be noted in the 

 country for seeing the most of every run. 



*' How do you do it?" I asked him once 

 when, on a very moderate horse, he had seen a 

 long, and at times fairly fast run, over a stiffish 

 country. We were both out and both got to 

 the end, but he was with hounds all the way or 

 nearly so, and had been in the same field when 

 they killed, while I had seen parts only of the 

 run and had arrived in time to see Caroline and 

 Lavish squabbling over the fox's leg as their 

 custom was. "My dear chap," he said, "there's 

 no magic in it; you can sum it up in two words, 

 ' Strict attention to business and consideration 

 for the horse.' Tell you about to-day.^ Yes. 

 We found in the Fifty Acre Wood, where I saw 

 you talking to some one, though you know 

 just as well as I do how quick those bitches are 

 to get away. I never speak to any one after 

 hounds are once in covert. Then I was lucky : 

 I remembered the last time we found at that 

 place, the fox went out on the side near the 

 village. There is a path that goes through the 

 wood and leads to the boundary fence where 

 it is a little broken down. The take-off is 

 sound, so the big ditch doesn't matter. Well, 

 as soon as I heard hounds running pretty hard 



