The Stable Handbook 



any note you must at some point in the chase 

 gallop. 



To save your horse, then, means to fall back 

 into the ruck out of the place where you can see 

 hounds work, so that the economy must come at 

 the fences. 



Necessity may oblige us to keep only one horse. 

 Again we may not be able to spare more than one 

 day in the week for the hunting-field from our 

 other occupations. But if we can manage two 

 horses and a pony we shall, of course, be able to 

 do a great deal more at no very great addition of 

 expense. One man can look after the three, as we 

 have seen, and we ought to have about three days 

 a week on the average. Now, if you really like 

 hunting the more you have the more you want, 

 and there is no time when I feel so keen as when 

 I come back comfortably tired after a good day 

 with hounds. It adds to the enjoyment of the 

 pleasant hour between your return and dinner to 

 reflect that you are going out the next day, and it 

 adds to the pleasure of the visit to the stable to see 

 the horse you are going to ride the next day lick 

 up eagerly his last feed of corn, and to find that 

 the one that has come home is like his master com- 

 fortably tired and hungry. 



There is one thing I always do that I think is 

 due to one's horse, though it is very old-fashioned. 

 When I come in from hunting I like to see the 

 horse take his gruel, have his bandages put on, 



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