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3. Irish mare, bought as a colt and trained ; 

 excellent and delightful to ride and beautiful 

 fencer. Cost £^0. Had a leg. Sold for ^30. 



4. Brown mare. Cost ^26. Went well, up 

 to weight, rather slow. Sold for ;^8o. 



5. Chestnut horse, buck-jumper, ^75. Cured, 

 and sold for ^150. 



It will be seen that I had a season's hunting, 

 and had one screw on my hands, and ^30 when 

 I had finished. 



My accounts show that my expenditure for 

 the six months of the hunting season was ^350, 

 which included a subscription to the hounds, 

 but did not include the cost of horses which 

 were bought earlier in the season. Eventually 

 I gave away the chestnut horse, so that the 

 actual cost of my season was ^"350, which 

 included everything. I kept more horses than 

 I could otherwise have done, as I was acting 

 as correspondent to a sporting paper and had 

 to go out tolerably often, and with three or 

 four different packs to make up the tale of 

 bricks for the week. This estimate might be 

 reduced by keeping fewer horses. But I do 

 not think that it is possible to hunt regularly 

 and to reckon on seeing a fair allowance of 

 hunting, without two or three horses. Some- 

 thing, too, must be allowed for casualties. 



There is yet another class of man who must 



