EOESE TALK. 



CHAPTER I. 



HOESE BSEEDIffG HTJNTEES AIO) THEIE EIDEBS. 



THE majority of our hunting men of the present day 

 will ride (with saddle and bridle) not less than fourteen 

 stone ; they are mostly strong, athletic, skilful horse- 

 men, who must and will be carried wherever the hounds 

 go. Need we wonder, then, that they have considerable 

 trouble in finding, and have to pay enormous prices for 

 horses that can go on galloping freely, and jumping 

 with such a burden on their backs, field after field, 

 through a strongly enclosed country. 



We pay as much or more attention to condition than 

 ever we did. Our hounds are now bred with more 

 speed than formerly. Foxes are frequently rattled into 

 and worried in less than twenty minutes. Our hunters 

 have plenty of speed and blood, but many of tnem lack 

 that very essential quality in horses, " substance." My 



