16 SPORT. 



Without hurry, just restraining his impatience (he 

 has the eagerness of youth), yet leaving him much 

 to himself, he puts his horse at it in a steady hand 

 canter, dropping his hand at the instant the sensible 

 beast takes off to an inch in the right place, and 

 he is safe over without even a rap. 



A glorious sea of grass is now before him, 



Quocunque adspicias, nihil est nisi gramen et aer ! 



A smooth and gradual slope with comparatively 

 small fences leads down to the conventional line of 

 willows which foreshadows the inevitable brook, 

 without which neither in fact nor story can a good 

 run with hounds occur. Now it is that our hero 

 shows himself a consummate master of his art. 

 The ploughed and ridge-and-furrow fields, above 

 alluded to, followed by the extra exertion of the 

 timber jump at the top of the hill, have rather 

 taken the " puff" out of his gallant young horse, 

 and besides, from the same causes the hounds by 

 this time have got rather the better of him. In 



