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are going; therefore every breeder of horses 

 inteuded for hunting should run his young 

 stock for a certain period on the roughest 

 ground he can find, having a few open drains, 

 bogs, &c., to assist in the education of the 

 young animals over uneven, broken, and rough 

 ground. 



A hunter should be as near perfection as 

 regards make and shape as possible, he should 

 be eager, but at the same time his temper must 

 be good, his mouth also should be perfect. It 

 is easy to buy a so-called ' made hunter provided 

 the purse be of sufficient elasticity to meet the 

 demands of the vendor. As a rule, and with 

 very few exceptions, this ' made hunter ' 

 is a good leaper, has a hard mouth, and 

 when in view of a fence clenches his bit in 

 his mouth, and rushes at it at the speed 

 of twenty miles an hour. I should like to 

 know what pleasure can be derived by riding 

 such a brute as above described. It takes 

 all a man can do to moderate the animal's 

 pace, it requires two hands on the reins to turn 



