84 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



should seem that when race horses were bred 

 so much for stoutness was the very time when 

 one would have expected they would have been 

 bought up for hunters with the greater avidity ; 

 so they would have probably been, but, as I 

 stated, the squire knew then nothing about 

 them, and did not value their speed if he did. 



But enough of horses, let us return to men. 

 But in speaking or rather writing of " The 

 Sporting World," we must not only introduce 

 but dilate on the attributes of animals so 

 intimately connected with the subject, as much 

 as if we were to write the Campaigns of 

 Wellington we must introduce cavalry, infantry, 

 and artillery, charges, storming, and all the 

 casualties of warfare. 



Come we now to another class of hare 

 hunters, namely the farmer who at his own 

 expense or jointly with his neighbours keeps a 

 pack for their own especial gratifications ; these 

 will be found mostly to be like their owners, a 



