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agree with him ; and then, of course, it is a 

 case of " pull devil, pull baker ! " as to who 

 shall win the deal. But in the ordinary 

 course of things, your hurdle racer will not 

 take long to prepare if he is only even 

 moderately willing. There are degrees, too, 

 of willingness. Scamp — a horse I have 

 alluded to elsewhere — was quite agreeable 

 to do his l)est in a hurdle race, although 

 he would gallop hard against tliree hurdles 

 out of five and knock them down ; Quits, 

 on the other hand, was not willing to do 

 even this. In fact he was so imbued with 

 Conservatism — he came from Shardeloes ! — 

 that he resolutely set his face against the 

 *' illegitimate" game altogether, and would 

 have none of it. To beo^in with — and 

 this, whether you are schooling a horse for 

 hurdle jumping, or getting over a country 

 — a small obstacle, such as a pole laid on 

 uprights dressed up with fresh gorse, and not 

 exceeding; three feet in heicyht, should be set 

 up, and tlie novice " led " over it by a staid 

 and clever jumper. T.et him have it as slowly 



