32 The Hunting Countries of England, 



take care, in most instances, to keep thorouglibrecL 

 ones for their own riding. In twenty minutes over 

 the Wolds your steed will surely tell you, in unmis- 

 takable language, if his grandsire's name was Smiler 

 (as Custance so aptly put it) ; for only a clean, or 

 nearly-clean bred one can climb the hills or breast the 

 plough till hounds run into their fox. 



