44 PRACTICAL HINTS FOR HUNTING NOVICES. 



riding, and is useless in the hunting field, being far too 

 weak to hold a gate, and very liable to slip through 

 the fingers. I should hardly have mentioned the old- 

 fashioned whip but for having seen one a day or tv\'o 

 ago. It was a pretty Httle affair, gold mounted, and 

 with a blue silk tassel, and its possessor was a tiny child 

 of five, who was beginning her riding career on the 

 family donkey, and who showed me what mother had 

 given her with all the pride of possession. 



