88 Hn7TS TO horsemen; oe, 



potent, grave, and reverend seniors," who safely 

 enough carry you to the top of a bank, take a com- 

 placent view of the surrounding country, and then 

 condescend to bestir themselves, and land you in the 

 next field, just in time to see " the Field " flying the 

 fence that leads out of it. This is really a desirable 

 quality in a shooting pony, so is quietly remaining 

 gnawing a hedge, without being tied up, till you 

 choose to come back to him ; but for a hunter, I should 

 prefer one that required not only being ''held by 

 the head," but held somewhat strongly. 



When horses, from natural or acquired habit, 

 become anything bordering on what I have re- 

 presented, whip, spur, hands, judgment, nerve, and 

 determination may improve, but cannot cure them. 

 As luggage trains stop at every station, so will these 

 luggage horses (their only proper employ, by the by) 

 ever stop, more or less, at every fence they come to. 

 Unless it be found that two or three days' '' waking 

 up " greatly improves them, it is useless and cruel 

 to persevere in severity with them ; for probably it 

 may be no fault in the animal. It is more than 



