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CH/ VII 



Give me a man to whom naught comes 



One horse or another, that country or this 



Afho through falls and had starts undauntedly still 



Rides up to the motto "Be with them I will . 



EG" ".RBURTON. 



ly of us have, I expect, at ti rondere 

 y there are so few really good men to hounds. The 

 answer is not an easy one to give, nor can it, I feel 

 sure, he given in a word. 



■ hen hounds run fast and hard over an enclose-., 

 country, and all packs do at times, in spite of hound 



ows, it does not come at once to any man to ride 

 _is own line and stick to them. - men go hunting, 

 out only a few ever learn to do this well. In the 

 majority of cases it is not, I think, from the want of 

 courage or nerve; to excel, one must, of course, have 

 good nerves, but several other qualities are equally 

 essential. One of the greatest stumbling blocks is 

 want of quickness in forming an instant decision as 

 to whether a fence is jumpable or not. So many men 

 will jump a big place directly they have seen another 

 man go, but they have no confidence in their own 

 judgment. They feel that if leading and in front 

 they may take on a perfectly impossible place or turn 

 from one over which another man, coming up, flicks without 

 an effort. Is latter proceeding is somewhat humilia- 

 ting, and here we have one reason "why so few men settle 

 down resolutely to ride their own line when hounds run. 



The first thing a lad who wishes to excel has to 

 learn (I am now talking of merely the riding part of the 



