204 HixTS TO horsemen; oe, 



free from rust, as, in sooth, it is of polish. Then, 

 for themselves, their breeches made with the knee- 

 buttons looking, as it were, backwards, their boots 

 turned out by a country maker, and their coat — oh ! 

 such a coat. Their horse carries them well, in such 

 a country as such men are found in ; there they 

 may boast of his exploits and their own, and in this 

 opinion they are confirmed by seeing, if perchance 

 any stranger is seen among them, that he is carried 

 no better, for in such country superior horses are lost ; 

 but let them go where men of a different class, and 

 horses of a different caste, can shew themselves, they 

 will find that the horse that carried them so well, is 

 just nowhere ; they will find that there is a vast 

 difference in countries, and a still greater one in horses. 

 We will suppose him to have gone where he would 

 have this showed him practically, where he would 

 have found his famous liorse beaten, and himself 

 eclipsed ; what would be the probable result ? He 

 would go back fully impressed with the idea, that 

 hunting was in no way the object of those he saw, 

 that they met to show themselves and their horses,- 



