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use of ground.^ Let us, therefore, all hunt as much 

 as we can, and learn to think of ground in the 

 pleasantest possible way ! 



The author of Riding Recollections writes of an 

 old friend of his that, " He always rode as if he 

 had never seen a run before, and should never see 

 one again," and he adds that this is something of 

 the feeling that those who ride to hounds should 

 possess, a feeling which impels them to take every 

 legitimate advantage, and to throw no possible 

 chance away. 



Analyzed, this means, " Always play the game." 



How many runs have been missed because people 

 will talk at the wrong time ; because they will not 

 take the trouble to keep touch with the hounds in 

 a big wood ; because they will not get up early 

 enough to be in time at the meet ; because on a 

 bad scenting day they will let hounds get so far 

 ahead of them that, when the scent suddenly im- 

 proves, they do not know which way they have 

 gone ? These are only a few instances of the bad 

 results of not "playing the game." 



We need not search very deeply into our military 

 history to find plenty of instances of disasters which 

 were due solely and simply to this same slackness, 

 this same contempt of the enemy. Zululand, the 

 Soudan, South Africa, and India, all furnish examples, 

 but it would perhaps be better taste not to name 

 them. 



Therefore, let us soldier as we would ride to 

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