108 BREEDING PONIES. 



in vogue in that country which accounts for 

 his excellence; and truly wonderful were 

 the capahilities of the little hunters (some 

 so small as thirteen-two) on which this 

 redouhtahle sportsman speared hog, hear, 

 and even leopards, over hroken and rocky 

 ground, intersected by nullahs and other 

 obstacles, which render pig-sticking in certain 

 parts of India the most difficult and exciting 

 of all forms of hunting, from the horseman's 

 point of view. 



But we breed some good ponies in our own 

 country, too, and our native wild or semi- 

 wild stock, affords us a capital foundation 

 on which to build what we want. The 

 Welsh and Exmoor breeds have long been 

 improved by the use of small thoroughbred 

 sires ; while of late the New Forest and 

 Dartmoor ponies have also largely benefited 

 by similar means. The original Exmoor 

 (the truest specimens of which are in 

 possession of the Acland family at Holnicote) 



