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get-up," especially for a faultless boot, which is 

 generally regarded as a sure indication of riding 

 power. The old Sir Richard Sutton, when asked, 

 during his mastership of the Quorn Hounds, whether 

 So-and-so, recently arrived from the country, could 

 ride, replied : " I don't know I have not seen him 

 go ; but I should think he could, for he hangs a good 

 boot." To arrive, however, at this rarely attained 

 perfection of sporting exterior, I grieve to say that 

 an almost total absence of calf is indispensable ; but 

 with this physical advantage in his favour, if he can 

 otherwise " dress up to it," very little more is re- 

 quired from him. He expends all his energies on 

 his " get-up," and when he is " got-up " he is done 

 and exhausted for the day, and is seldom seen out 

 of a trot or a lane. Then there is the man " who 

 can tell you all about it/' He will describe the whole 

 run, with fervent and florid descriptions of this 

 awkward fence, or that wide brook, not positively 

 asserting, but leaving you to infer, that he was in the 

 front rank all the way ; but somehow no one else will 



