. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. . OI I K 138 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS wonderfully well for their work. After passinganother six months in training at the regimen-tal stations they are drafted into the squadronsor the batteries. VI. Hunting After war came hunting as the next neces-sity in which men learned to use horses, as we see by the statues and engrav- - -t- ings that represent to usSt. George hunting thedragon and cominvictorious fromthe fight. / The de-structionof dgerousand Hunting has always been an English passionwhich, like many other sports an
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. . OI I K 138 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS wonderfully well for their work. After passinganother six months in training at the regimen-tal stations they are drafted into the squadronsor the batteries. VI. Hunting After war came hunting as the next neces-sity in which men learned to use horses, as we see by the statues and engrav- - -t- ings that represent to usSt. George hunting thedragon and cominvictorious fromthe fight. / The de-structionof dgerousand Hunting has always been an English passionwhich, like many other sports and bodily exer-cises, has passed from Great Britain to theContinent and to America. This explains whythe English have applied themselves especiallyto the breeding of hunting horses. The countryitself, by the lay of its land, is very favorable tocynegetic exercises, having few cur\es and many-^:^gj^,^_^__^ plains with only such obstacles andbarriers as a horse can annals of huntingEngland are veryinteresting tothose whohave a tastefor thatort is. mischie-vous animals, whichat first was anecessity, be-came very quickly apleasure, and has endedin becoming an art, thanks trthe enjoyment derived from motionin the open air, and from the pleasureof surmounting obstacles and braving death of the hunted animal is only anaccessory; the seekirtg of the dogs, the joyoussound of the huntsmans horn, the pleasureof proving to others our agility, strength,courage, intrepidity, — herein lies the true joyof hunting. German related that early in the last century a deer, hunted by the hounds of the king of England, ran for four hours and forty-five mmutes. Rider after rider gave upBodyguard ^^^^ ^^^^j^ ^j^^ ^^ ^^^^ q^^ ^^^.^^ fell dead, another expired before he reached thestable, and seven others died during the follow-ing week (a mortality as great as or even greaterthan that of a Spanish bullfight). Huntsmennever lose sight of the game, which can, there-fore, ne
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