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yours did, to ' stand still ; ' but you will know 

 better after this." 



" I suppose," said my friend, " w^e shall be 

 prettily jeered the next time we show ourselves." 



" That is a thing," said I, " I never trouble my 

 head about. I hunt because I like hunting, ride 

 because I like riding; if others choose to ride to 

 please me and other persons, it is a condescension 

 I am not disposed to return; but," continued I, 

 laughing, " as you may be more fastidious than I, 

 we shall get off very well, by telling a portion of 

 the truth : the grey I was riding on trial tired, 

 and you, as my guest and a stranger in the country, 

 went home with me." 



'' What had I better do with White Surrey as 

 you call him," said my friend ; " I suppose he will 

 never make a hunter?" 



" He is a hunter," said I, " and a very pleasant 

 one, but not for fox-hounds ; he is very handsome, 

 and very perfect. To carry a nobleman who 

 keeps or hunts wdth harriers only, he is worth a 

 couple of hundred as well as one. The poor 

 animal is not to blame ; he is very willing, and 

 indeed very game, for he wdll struggle till nature 

 can struggle no longer; he is better indeed than I 

 expected, for he is no cur; he is just what he 

 looks, a holiday kind of horse, wanting natural 

 endurance of stamina : you have four others, so 

 you will do well enough at all events for your 



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