6 PRACTICAL HINTS FOR HUNTING NOVICES. 



ground. A boy, or any hunting novice for that matter, 

 should always reflect what damage could be done to a 

 kitchen garden by a horse galloping over it, and he 

 should then bear in mind that some farming is very like 

 gardening on a larger and grander scale. Old turf, 

 moorland, rides in a covert, ploughed fields, and stubble 

 which is free from seeds and about to be ploughed, 

 are all fair galloping ground, but growing crops should 

 always be avoided and a course steered along th« head- 

 land of the field. 



