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ment and liorsemansliip will do, we need go no farther 

 than to see Colonel Wyndhani ride a chase : he 

 shoves his horse along most awfully certainly ; but 

 depend on it he saves him whenever he can, though 

 he mil risk his and his own neck the next minute at 

 fencing. What makes him do this arises from the 

 same cause that actuates his every action in life — 

 his heart is where every heart should be, and where 

 so few are, in the right place. 



In some proof of my assertion (I should say 

 opinion) that even weight will not tell like pace, I 

 will mention an anecdote : it does not speak much in 

 favour of my own judgment on the occasion ; but no 

 matter ; if it elucidates anything that will save horses 

 it "will answer a much better purpose. I went to get 

 a couple of days' hunting with a friend of mine, an 

 18st. man, and sent a couple of horses for the purpose ; 

 but my friend insisted on mounting me, and paid me 

 the compliment of putting me upon his favourite 

 horse Beggarman, a very fine horse certainly, and a 

 perfect hunter, for a certain pace. I eyed the nag 

 rather suspiciously I own ; for it struck me we 

 should differ widely in our ideas of going along. 

 However, the compliment could not be refused. Pug 

 was at home, and away we went, I on my general 

 plan, of not going perhaps as well as many others, 

 but at all events as well as / can, as straight as I 

 can, and as long as I can. Beggarman certainly 

 went very well for a quarter of an hour, took his 

 fences admirably ; but I felt nothing of his being 

 " rather inclined to pull a bit " (which the groom had 

 warned me of) ; for the fact was (though I did not at 

 the time know it), he was going his very fastest, so 

 did not of course pull to try to go faster. I soon 



