82 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



patience you can undo the evil, you may do so, 

 and at all events by the time you have put 

 your refractory horse through a course of 

 bending lessons, and have ridden on him some 

 simple school exercises, you yourself will be in 

 a fair way to be a good horseman, or at all 

 events — if you are still alive — a much better 

 one than when you began. 



Now let me give, from my own experience, 

 the cost of a stud on which I saw much 

 fun, and the selling prices of the horses. 

 Every one of them was bought at auction 

 and sold in the same way. The *' Screw- 

 driver," as our forefathers used to call the 

 man who mounted himself in this fashion, 

 should never either buy from or sell a horse 

 to a friend. My horses were bought as they 

 could be picked up in the summer and sold 

 in January, when, if the season is open, fair 

 prices can be reckoned on. 



1. Bior brown horse, a roarer, and with navi- 

 cular. Cost ^lo. Shot at close of leave on 

 account of an accident. A useful horse and a 

 first-rate timber jumper. 



2. Chestnut horse, a steeplechaser, a big 

 striding blood horse, ^50. Bad puller, but 

 went quietly in his second season. Did not 

 sell. He was a good horse to ride, but would 

 fetch no price. 



