20 The Art of Biding. 



perience once told the writer that if a good habit 

 was thoroughly inculcated by the hundredth 

 repetition he was quite satisfied. Let us not then 

 be too hard upon the horse if he appears slow in 

 acquiring those good manners which fit him for 

 the services and pleasures of man. 



Great care should be taken never to ask him 

 to do anything in the hunting field, where serious 

 danger is unavoidable and evident. He places 

 implicit confidence in man ; but when he finds 

 that confidence abused he is apt to reject the 

 guidance of his rider, and refuse the performance 

 of all feats similar in character to the one he was 

 urged to, in which his danger was evident. A 

 well-known Nobleman had in his stables a 

 splendid hunter who was never known to refuse 

 any leap. Being out one day with the hounds 



