Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . \. Captain 3ohn Mbite i57 Eton, where he proved himself a very lively youngsterindeed. But, even before he went to Eton, John Whitehad shown that the love of horsemanship was born inhim. His first essays in riding were on a pony, sosmall that, to quote his own words, with the saddleon him he used to walk under a leaping bar at homeand be afterwards galloped over it. At football andcricket young White so
Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . \. Captain 3ohn Mbite i57 Eton, where he proved himself a very lively youngsterindeed. But, even before he went to Eton, John Whitehad shown that the love of horsemanship was born inhim. His first essays in riding were on a pony, sosmall that, to quote his own words, with the saddleon him he used to walk under a leaping bar at homeand be afterwards galloped over it. At football andcricket young White soon made his mark at Eton, butof scholarship he acquired no more than w^as absolutelylicked into him, which was probably about as much asthe average healthy, athletic English schoolboy carriesaway with him nowadays. From Eton, John White went to Christ Church,Oxford, and it was significant of his ideas as to what auniversity curriculum should be that he took threehunters up with him as a freshman, and it was said ofhim that, during his three years MaUr, he neveronce missed a day with hounds when they met withinanything like riding distance of Oxford. When he finished his career as
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