CHAPTER VIII 



THE MARCH TO THE RENDEZVOUS 

 " De I'observation, de I'observation, et toujours de I'observation. " 



General Sir E. B. Hamley wrote : — " The 

 theatre of war is the province of strategy ; the field 

 of battle is the province of tactics." Let us see how 

 this, which refers to the Real Thing, can be applied 

 to the Image. 



We may say that our theatre of war is the country 

 in which we are going to hunt, and that our fields of 

 battle are the meets of the hounds that we are going 

 to attend, and the country immediately round them. 



The only strategy we require is to try and arrange 

 to go to the best and nearest meets, or, if we have a 

 stud of horses, to arrange our horses suitably for 

 them. This means that we must tell off our fast 

 flippant horse for the flying grass country, and our 

 steady, short-backed, and possibly slower one, for 

 the cramped bank and ditch country. It also means 

 that we should keep the bad hacks — those which 

 have "a leg," and the young ones — for the near 

 meets, the good hacks and the sound, seasoned 

 horses for the distant ones. We will figuratively 



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