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on his course slowly and very sick. I was debating 

 whether to try and finish the matter with my 

 stirrup iron or whether to gallop to a little hamlet 

 a quarter of a mile away to get a lathi or stick, with 

 the almost certainty of losing the pig, when Norton 

 who had also cast for'ard came up. The sight of 

 him seemed to give the pig a fresh lease of life for 

 he charged him savagely at once, and cut Scatters, 

 Norton's horse. The butt of the spear was in the 

 way ; however, Norton killed him. 



7. Position in a Run, — No run will ever give you 

 pleasure to think of unless you have cut out, or 

 tried to cut out, all the work, be it in competition. 

 Tent Club, or hunting trips. If your horse is not 

 fast enough you may not be able to do the bulk of 

 the hunting. Try to, at anyrate ; you will help in 

 the hunt more by being first than elsewhere. Never 

 lie second on purpose, or ride cunning as regards 

 the work. A fast horse is a great advantage, but 

 he is not everything. In the Kadir Cup, and still 

 more so in ordinary hunting, how often does one 

 not see a good man on an inferior horse leaving 

 better horses behind him ? The extra knowledge 

 and quickness give an advantage of two or three 

 lengths, most difficult to make up, be the other 

 horses as fast as they may. 



Ever since I have hunted in any country, I 

 have always been struck with the way in which a 

 really first-class performer, no matter how he is 

 mounted, leaps into full stride and sails away on 

 the boar's tail ; riding easily with no effort and 

 leaving his heat behind with the difficult task of 

 making up ground or trying vainly to get up by 

 chipping in on a pig, who always seems to go just 

 the wrong way. 



