RIDING RECOLLECTIONS 



helps you to spare your horse, and remain on any 

 kind of terms with them, on ground no less trying 

 to his temper and intelligence than to his wind 

 and muscular powers. 



Till you attempt to gallop alongside, you will 

 hardly believe how hard the hounds are running. 

 They neither carry such a head, nor dash so 

 eagerly, I might almost say jealously, for the 

 scent as if they were hunting their natural quarry, 

 the fox. This difference I attribute to the larger 

 size, and consequently stronger odour, of a deer. 

 Every hound enjoying his full share, none are 

 tempted to rob their comrades of the mysterious 

 pleasure, and we therefore miss the quick, sharp 

 turns and the drive that we are accustomed to 

 consider so characteristic of the fox-hound. They 

 string, too, in long-drawn line, because of the tall, 

 bushy heather, necessitating great size and power, 

 through which they must make their way ; but, 

 nevertheless, they keep swinging steadily on, 

 without a check or hover, for many a mile of 

 moorland, showing something of that fierce 

 indomitable perseverance attributed by Byron to 

 the wolf — 



"With his long gallop that can tire 

 The hound's deep hate and hunter's fire." 



If you had a second Eclipse under you, and 

 rode him fairly with them, yard for yard, you 

 would stop him in less than twenty minutes ! 



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