314 SOME GENERAL REMARKS. 



your horse, spare no pains to give him a 

 really good mouth. As a hack, do not 

 consider him properly broken until the 

 merest turn of the wrist, with the corre- 

 sponding pressure of a loose rein upon either 

 side of his neck, will suffice to bend him. 

 Many otherwise temperate horses will, of 

 course, pull a hit in the excitement of the 

 " Niagara-like " rush, as some sporting 

 writer has aptly put it, of the " gone-away," 

 and especially those that only occasionally 

 enjoy the treat of a day with the hounds. 

 If you want a good day's exercise, by the 

 way, accept a friend's offer of a mount on 

 one of his phaeton horses which was hunted 

 a bit in his youth. Some horses, again, 

 however regularly they are hunted, will 

 pull all day till they are done. But to 

 really enjoy hunting, the less you have to 

 consider your horse the better, since it 

 is obvious that the more attention you 

 have to bestow upon your raount, the less 



