84 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



not be forgotten in a work like this -the man 

 with one horse. He belongs to a numerous 

 class, is almost necessarily a good sportsman, 

 and very often enjoys his sport under con- 

 siderable difficulties and the expense of much 

 labour and self-denial. Let me give one or 

 two examples drawn from a wide experience 

 among hunting men. The first that occurs to 

 my mind is of a man who has since become 

 very eminent as a sportsman, but whose means 

 at one time of his life were very moderate 

 indeed. His plan was this. He kept no 

 regular stable, but himself with the help of 

 a lad looked after the horse. The animal, 

 a useful one, was kept in a shed open to a 

 meadow. On the owner's return from hunting 

 he simply took off the saddle and bridle, gave 

 the horse a pailful of warm gruel, and let him 

 roll on the grass. About an hour afterwards 

 the horse was given a full feed of corn and shut 

 in for the night with a rug over him. In the 

 morning he was roughly groomed over and had 

 the run of the meadow till the next hunting- 

 day. This horse was never sick or sorry, but 

 he was of course well fed with the best of oats, 

 hay, and split peas. It is perhaps needless to 

 say that the country in which this sportsman 

 hunted was not a flying one, but of the sport 

 there was he saw the best. Let me give 



