TYPICAL LEICESTERSHIRE HUNTER. 9 



over his fences, because there is ahnost always a ditch 

 or a rail on one side or the other of the Midland hedges. 

 Temperate he must be, because the fields in Leicester- 



Fig. 2. — Miss Biirnaby's Butterfly. 



shire, for instance, are so large that there is often a 

 crowd of riders waiting their turn at the only practic- 

 able place in a jump, filing through a gate, or waiting 



