44 " MONEY MAKES THE MAKE TO GO." 



will do for many other purposes, though no hunter. 

 It would be cruel and useless to punish the poor brute 

 because nature had denied him stamina. If he is a 

 bad umvilling one, sell him also; his proper place is 

 the wheel of a coach, where tlie double-thong Avill 

 teach him he must work as well as his neighbours : 

 he deserves it. This would not be cruelty. 



Let me most earnestly beg it may be clearly under- 

 stood that the few hints I have here given on riding 

 to hounds are merely intended for young sportstnen, 

 or men who, as I did, consider themselves mounted 

 with five horses. Men who keep fifteen for their own 

 riding can of course take what liberties they like with 

 them, and, having a fresh horse or two out, can, if 

 they think there is any merit in the thing, take the 

 steel out of them in half an hour — no difficult matter, 

 let me say. I am, however, not quite sure they could 

 at the finish give a clearer account of the run than 

 their less opulent, and therefore, from necessity, more 

 considerate, brother sportsmen. " Money," the old 

 saying says, " makes the mare to go:" so it does the 

 horse ; but it will not make him go beyond his powers, 

 or longer or better than other men's horses : if it 

 could, poor devils like myself would have no business 

 fox-hunting : but as it will not, " a hunting we will 

 go, will go, a hunting we 'svill go, " as long as we can ; 

 at least I will. 



Having said this much of glorious fox-hunting, as I 

 am writing my crude ideas of what is and what is not 

 cruelty to animals, I now come to hare hunting. Is 

 it not cruel to hunt a poor hare to death ? Certainly 

 it is cruel — very cruel, if the term pleases better — 

 and in point of fact cruel it is. I always like to see 

 things properly defined. The only answer, I should 



