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teach you what to make him do, nor prevent 

 you from being afraid to make him do what 

 is required. Now mere horsemanship, and a 

 comparatively humble degree of mere horse- 

 manship, is all that I can show you how to 

 acquire. The higher qualities of the English 

 sportsman must be learnt, if they can be 

 learnt at all, from teachers more experienced 

 in their practice than I can pretend to be. 



February 16, 1869. 



