Vlll TREFACE. 



horses, fencing, ground, and hunting, not to be 

 acquired in a season or two. 



I may be unequal to impart such information 

 as is requisite to make my reader what he may 

 wish to become in such matters ; but he may at 

 least derive this advantage from a perusal of this 

 volume — it will probably enable him to under- 

 stand and appreciate superior instructions from 

 any better informed than myself, in the matters 

 on which I have written. 



If, however, such joint efforts fail in teaching 

 him to acquire the indispensable requisites for 

 a hunting rider, let him again read this preface, 

 where I give him such advice as, under such 

 circumstances, I know to be good ; namely, let 

 him seek other pursuits and give up hunting, for 

 he will find no real enjoyment in it, if, instead 

 of " going like a workman " among those who do, 

 certain indications make him more than suspect 

 he is " going like a muff." 



In something like illustration of these two 

 opposite characters, I have sketched tAvo subjects 

 for engravings, which I trust will explain their 

 meaning sufficiently without my intruding long 

 on the reader's time. 



The " right sort," I mean to comprehend both 

 biped and quadruped : the men are a good, fair 

 specimen of hunting riders, the horses also a fair 

 description of hunter ; they are taking a rather 



