GO THE HUNTlNG-riELD. 



that a liimter can be brouglit to the condition he 

 should be in by jading him one day and resting 

 him three. 



Persons are sometimes very much deceived as 

 to the effect standing two or three days in the 

 stable has on horses^ by what they see of them 

 when out. Doubtless the horse will fling himself 

 about, snort, jumip, and kick at anything that 

 comes near him : this is not energy from standing 

 in the stable, but delight at getting out of it ; he 

 feels an invigorating atmosphere in lieu of a 

 heated and enervating one, but so far from this 

 being genuine energy, he has no energy in him 

 but for the moment. Some livery-stable groom 

 might say, '' There, Sir, he is fit to go a hundred 

 miles for you ; '' when the truth would be, he was 

 not fit to go twenty, and would probably realise 

 the somewhat equivocal recommendation given by 

 a low horse-dealer of a ten-pound nag, to a some- 

 what simple young gentleman : " Go ! why, Lord 

 love ye, Fve known him go so far in one hour, it 

 took him three to get back ! '' 



We have frequently heard that all but extinct 

 character, the country squire, accused of being 

 somewhat boisterous in his hilarity : we seldom 

 hear that brought forward as a characteristic of 

 the man devoted to calculating tare and tret, the 

 value of consols or counter goods. Whence arose 

 this ? — From a very simple cause. In the days of 



