422 FOX-HOUND, FOREST, AND PRAIRIE. 



course leave all to them when embarked on a headlong gallop 

 over such ground : and depend on it they will not betray you. 

 The main difficulty is to sit tight in an English saddle I 

 mean, not in an American " cow saddle " with its great main- 

 mast of a pommel standing up before you. An excellent 

 saddle, too, is the latter for rough work and for roping 

 (by which is meant lassoing) but not the saddle for a horse- 

 man to begin upon at forty, while again the lasso is more for 

 the cattle business than for horsework. Well we drove in 

 the wild mare, felt all the better for the gallop, and took a 

 packhorse for the " deer-meat " in the cool of the morning. 



