. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . IN FULL CHASE. terest in the hunt, and devotes his energies to saving himself from awetting. Meantime the fox is going over the hills and far away, andthe more fortunate hunters are leaving the victim of the brook in thebackground. Many an unskilled hunter comes to grief at fences, and a good many 58 THE YOUNG NIMRODS. skilled ones as well. To take a fence or a gate requires a good horseand a good rider; and these are not always found together. I was oncein a hunting-party where the most daring rider was a lady. She tookthe fence several
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . IN FULL CHASE. terest in the hunt, and devotes his energies to saving himself from awetting. Meantime the fox is going over the hills and far away, andthe more fortunate hunters are leaving the victim of the brook in thebackground. Many an unskilled hunter comes to grief at fences, and a good many 58 THE YOUNG NIMRODS. skilled ones as well. To take a fence or a gate requires a good horseand a good rider; and these are not always found together. I was oncein a hunting-party where the most daring rider was a lady. She tookthe fence several times in succession, while the more timorous, or per-haps not so well-mounted, gentlemen preferred to open a gate and pass. TAKING THE FENCE. quietly through. The worst thing in the way of fences is one that has awet ditch on the side opposite from where you jump, and you often takea leap and find yourself in a heap in the water, and perhaps with yourhorse on top of you. The comical side of a fox-hunt is as interesting as the sportive one;and if there are many verdant gentlemen in the party, and they aremounted on unruly horses, there will certainly be some laughable a frightened rider deserts his saddle, and clings to the maneor neck of his steed, and thus gives the animal an excellent chance topitch him headlong at will. The unfortunate hero of the overthrow vows A FOXS TRICKS. 59 that he will never show himself again at a fox-hunt—certainly not tillhe has a proper horse to ride. The fox displays a great deal of sagacity in eluding his volume might be tilled with the stories of his cunning, and even thenthe testimony concerning it would be far from exhausted. I will gi
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