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horse. That injury, however, was a fatal 

 one : he pitched on to the point of his 

 shoulder in landing over a drop fence, and 

 although I was able to walk him home, he 

 never came out again. In hiring, too, there 

 is one material advantage to a poor man ; he 

 knows the extent of his loss when "grief" 

 results. 



If you can hunt from home, however, I am 

 quite sure that the poor man's "best value" 

 is to buy something cheap. " There are as 

 many good cheap ones as good dear ones," 

 an old farmer used to say to me ; and speak- 

 ing as one who never had much more money 

 than he knew what to do with, I can add 

 that I have always been able, with, of course, 

 a certain amount of trouble, to get cheap 

 hunters — and they haven't all been bad ones 

 either ! 



Through the kindness of friends I have 

 had many a fine day on three and four 

 hundred guinea hunters, and am profoundly 

 thankful to say, never had any bad luck with 

 one of them. Once, however, when mounted 



