134 PINK AND SCARLET 



If you smoke, have your last one now, and don't 

 keep it going while hounds are drawing, and you 

 ought to be all attention to hear them find and to 

 get a start. 



This is an invitation meet, so look to your 

 manners and avoid riding on the trim edges of the 

 drive. Should you see any farmers you know, go 

 and speak to them, remembering that it is to them 

 that you owe your hunting. 



Find out where you are going to draw, then, if 

 you have time, pull out your map, locate the covert, 

 look at the surrounding country, and note what 

 other coverts are near it, thinking which of these 

 are down wind. To know the lie of the land will 

 help you in riding to hounds, and if you can piece it 

 in bit by bit as you go, and be able to say to yourself, 

 as you gallop across the piece of country you have 

 looked at on the map, " Ah ! now we are heading 

 for Foxey Wood," etc., etc., you are unconsciously 

 acquiring those two most important qualities in the 

 Real thing, an eye for country and a bump for 

 locality. 



We have dealt briefly with the Rendezvous, 

 because both in the Real and in the Imag-e it shows 

 bad work on somebody's part to be too long there. 

 To be too early is almost as bad as to be too late. 

 In the Image, it means that you have taken your 

 horse out of the stable unnecessarily early, or ridden 

 him too fast to the meet, and perhaps also that he 

 will catch cold while he waits about. In the Real, 

 to be too early at the Rendezvous means that the 



