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necessary, they will take to refusing. Alas! youth 

 does not always know when it is or is not necessary, 

 and old ones who have learnt the lesson have lost their 

 dash — the glorious dash and go of youth! 



I often think of Friendship when I hear it laid 

 down that no horse is ever vicious unless made so by 

 man. But I never contradict, for it is an admirable 

 sentiment, and true in ninety cases or more out of a 

 hundred. But as far as Friendship was concerned, if 

 Grant erred at all in his management of her, he was too 

 good and kind to her. 



I consider Friendship a good example of what per- 

 severance can do, for in her second season she was a 

 fair hunter and steadily improved. By some strange 

 chance I have kept two old letters which go to prove 

 how good she became. As a nine-year-old she developed 

 an unsoundness, and I sent her over to the Grafton 

 kennels to be shot. I was away at the time, and Tom 

 Bishop, then hunting the Grafton, was very anxious to 

 keep her to breed from, against my advice". I have a 

 letter from Major Wiseman, of Eastcote, saying he would 

 give the use of his horse Delandre, adding': "Bishop 

 says she is one of the best he ever saw out hunting." 

 So I gave her to Bishop, and have his letter thanking 

 me and speaking of her in the same way. 



The moral to be derived from Friendship is, I think, 

 when dealing with a bad one, stop and have it out; never 

 mind the hunt for once, but fight to a finish. Avoid 

 disagreement and punishment as you would avoid poison; 

 but if it must come to a fight, then let it be a fight 

 to a finish"^ and if you do not come out a winner, don't 

 go on with the horse. 



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