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farthing if from the exertion he was at death's door, 

 provided Mr. Death did not insist on his walking in. 

 He has plenty of time to recover himself between the 

 past exertion and the forthcoming one. But our 

 comfort, and let me hope humanity, would forbid us 

 bringing our hunter to such state after a burst, and 

 it is not every man who can afford to have a second 

 horse out every day he meets hounds." 



** Steeple-chase horses are sinking fast in my esti- 

 mation ; from your remarks on them they are now, 

 to use an «?^^^-sporting term, below par with me, 

 when thinking of them as hunters.'* 



" Do them not so much injustice ; all I have said 

 only goes so far as to show that the conviction you 

 entertained that their going as steeple-racers was proof 

 of their having the requisites of a hunter,is a mistake. 

 Lottery, who I have named, had all the requisites of 

 one, and Vivian, in point of goodnesSj would have 

 gone the longest burst ever known with fox-hounds. 

 Little Brunette, the Irish mare, was as good as gold* 

 and many I could mention were horses both pleasant 

 to ride, and of sterling merit as hunters. But, re- 



