CORRESPONDENCE. 809 



would freely recommend the adoption of this 

 mode of feeding hunters to my sporting 

 friends. 



Farmer. 



Sir, — I am still so inundated with corres- 

 pondence — many writers asking me precisely 

 the same questions — that I shall regard it as a 

 favour if you will again allow me to answer a 

 few of them through the medium of your paper. 



Conn. Dashpur. — You and your horse were 

 immersed in the river, simply because you did 

 not give him sufficient head-room to enable 

 him to take the jump with safety. In coming 

 up to a wide stretch of water you should 

 always leave your mount abundant oppor- 

 tunity to extend his head and neck, nor should 

 you wait to do this until you are just on the 

 brink, — it will then, most likely, be too late 

 to save you and him a wetting. A horse 

 stretches his neck coming up to a water-jump, 

 partly that he may see well what is before 

 him, and partly because his iutelhgence tells 

 him that he cannot compass it if tightly 

 Teined in. Leave him his head, and if he ic a 



