RIDING TO HOUNDS y:, 



neglected, but thev sweeten life for all with 

 whom we come in contact. Our dispositi(jns 

 are mostly concealed from those we come in 

 chance contact with in life ; our manners are 

 not, and they are the more important to ninety- 

 nine out of every hundred people we meet. 



Lord Chesterfield, I believe, despised hunt- 

 ing, knowincr little of it, but his letters to his 

 son are no bad study for the members of our 

 hunts to-day. 



