248 "SICH A GETTING UP STAIRS." 



fox found at Cliipstead, and killed in the Oxted 

 country, a man to be well carried would want two 

 horses of quite different pretensions, or one which 

 could vary his style of going, from that which 

 would do on chalk hills to that required in deep clay. 

 The same may be said of the Downs about Good- 

 wood, or getting over in the Petworth country. 

 Horses accustomed to flat countries cannot live with 

 hounds in hilly ones. Why ? Not because the hill- 

 country horses are better, but because they adapt 

 their style of going to the country. Ride a Leicester- 

 shire horse in a close hilly country two seasons, he 

 will become a different horse to what he was when he 

 came there : he will be no bettei' horse than he was, 

 for nothing can be harder work than crossing a Leices- 

 tershire pasture when it rides deep, taken as work ; 

 but climbing up and down hills is still harder to that 

 individual horse, because he is not used to it : till he 

 becomes so, a much inferior horse would beat him. 

 The same propelling powers are not equally called 

 upon in going up and down hills, and on a flat; 

 consequently those powers that are most wanted in 

 the one situation, not being in the habit of being so 

 much exerted in the other, become distressed when 

 they become the chief propellers requisite. 



London servants will run up and down stairs all 

 day without being fatigued : a straight two-mile walk 

 over a down would tire them. Country servants will 

 knock up in going the height of four-pair of stairs 

 till they are used to it: the calves of the legs and 

 back sinews are here called into unusual play, and 

 they cannot bear the tension till habit strengthens 

 them : then Dolly will trip up as quickly and coquet- 

 tishly as the London Abigail. 



