38 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



There is only one 6 on the six sides of a die ; so 

 we must not expect to throw it twice running. 

 We may, and often do; but sometimes we may 

 throw ten times without the 6 : so it brings it 

 to about the same odds. They are quite as great 

 against a young horse turning out first-rate as a 

 hunter. 



The other man is the man of moderate means. 

 He goes to the same source if he wishes to have 

 very fine horses, because he cannot afford to give 

 three or four hundred for a very fine horse — a 

 made and proved first-rate hunter. This man 

 instead of paying for having his horse made, 

 makes him himself, and succeeds more or less, ac- 

 cording to circumstances; but if he attempts to 

 do this, we must suppose he has fine judgment, 

 fine riding, and fine nerve to back him ; in which 

 case, though he will not, of course, succeed with all 

 horses alike, still he will make them all into 

 moderate, good, or capital hunters ; and, barring 

 accidents or great ill-luck, will make money by 

 them ; and so he ought who gets plenty of bruises 

 by land, and occasionally half drowned by water ; 

 for this is a little sauce piquante that a man may 

 expect with the first and second courses in trying 

 to keep his place. 



I have now got among a different class of men 

 from those I set out with, and for whom only the 

 foregoing has been written. I have mentioned 

 three distinct classes who go to the best breeders 



