CHAPTEE XVI. 



SOME GENERAL REMARKS. 



How few people seem now-a-days to adopt 

 riding as a form of regular exercise ! They 

 will ride to hunt ; even hunt to ride, as 

 Masters of Hounds, not without reason, 

 complain ; but very few care enough for 

 the exercise to hack about the country, 

 either on business or for pleasure, as used 

 to be done by considerable numbers. The 

 Row seems as popular as ever, while the 

 delightful tree-shaded avenues of Continental 

 cities, such as the Bois de Boulogne of Paris 

 and the Bois de la Cambre of Brussels, still 

 attract equestrians ; but in most rural dis- 

 tricts one now rarely meets a horseman ; 

 scarcely ever, out of the hunting season, a 

 horsewoman. Our very children are growing 



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