80 BAD TEMPER IN MAN OR HORSE 



good-tempered man has got a bad-tempered horse to 

 the end of a run, but if the case had been reversed, 

 both must have come to grief. On the contrary, I 

 have seen many a good-tempered horse brought to 

 grief by bad-tempered men. But as I have elsewhere 

 made reference to this subject, I do not desire to inflict 

 on my readers a repetition, and I only again make 

 mention of it to impress on the younger portion of 

 them the necessity for the avoidance of the evils 

 against which to be ' forewarned ' is surely to be * fore- 

 armed.' 



These extracts taken from my hunting-journal may 

 prove of interest to many of my friends of former 

 days, and perhaps to others also. They are the 

 records of days which I much fear can never be again 

 renewed, unless a very great change comes over my 

 native land. Oh, that the people would but listen to 

 the advice of their best and truest friends ! What 

 have they not thrown away to those evil-minded dogs 

 Deceit and Treachery ! We can but adopt as our 

 motto ' Dum spiro spero,' and hope that when they 

 have again returned to common-sense and consequent 

 propriety, we whom they have expatriated may return 

 to end our days in happiness again amongst them. 



