The Poor Maris Hunter 



light four-wheel dog-cart. There is little weight 

 on the back and forelegs, the wheels are close 

 together, and the brake can be easily and effectually 

 used. 



If, however, something larger is required I 

 have often found the right horse in hilly 

 countries. A light active cart horse is generally 

 used in these districts by the farmers, and an active 

 mare of this description often throws a quite 

 admirable colt to a well-bred horse. Such a 

 one I know well. He does the whole work of 

 a family living some miles from the station, and 

 takes his turn to do a day's hunting in a hilly 

 country. For staying power he is unequalled, and 

 there are few practicable fences that will stop him. 

 Another by a thoroughbred horse out of a cart 

 mare is a brilliant hunter, and looks like winning a 

 steeplechase. No doubt, however, the soft spot 

 would stop him when it came to galloping four 

 miles over a country at three - quarter speed. 

 But he is a capital horse at the price paid for 

 him, and with the exception of a fiddle-head very 

 good to look at. 



Of course there are other ways of buying a 

 useful horse. I have very often picked them up 

 at Tattersalls', bought them at sales of coach 

 horses, of cub hunters, and I once bought a very 

 useful colt at the sale of the effects of a farmer 

 who was, as the auctioneer's bill had it, ** declining 

 agriculture." Never buy of a friend or sell a 



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