202 FOX-HUNTING IN THE SHIRES 



easy way some men do, presupposes knowledge of 

 the country. You cannot, remember, go quickly 

 over Leicestershire unless you have either a first-rate 

 pilot or know something of the country. Without 

 one or the other you will certainly be in difficulties 

 before long. The men who swing with such apparent 

 ease over the country know their way and go quickly 

 and directly from one practicable place to another, 

 for the fences in some districts are not always, as I 

 have shown, to be jumped everywhere. 



What I have said here, while it makes no pretension 

 to teach the reader how to ride across Leicestershire, 

 brings before him those things which must be attended 

 to if success is to be attained. We must be quick to 

 start, ready to note what hounds are doing and what 

 they are about to do, and able and willing to gallop. 



