. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Horses of the English Army and forty minutes at full gallop across all sortsof ground and over many obstacles is sure toresult in either permanent injury or death. Here are a few instances in which the Eng-lish passion for hunting wild animals has beencarried to extravagant excess. The old Dukeof Richmond suffered so much from the gout. Training to Hunt that he had to be lifted onto his horse, andbeing unable to hold the reins, they were passedround his neck. And thus he was seen to ridedown the slopes of Bow Hill, near Goodwo
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Horses of the English Army and forty minutes at full gallop across all sortsof ground and over many obstacles is sure toresult in either permanent injury or death. Here are a few instances in which the Eng-lish passion for hunting wild animals has beencarried to extravagant excess. The old Dukeof Richmond suffered so much from the gout. Training to Hunt that he had to be lifted onto his horse, andbeing unable to hold the reins, they were passedround his neck. And thus he was seen to ridedown the slopes of Bow Hill, near Goodwood,at full gallop after the hounds, with all the fireof youth, his arms crossed on his breast. An old general, who had had his left armshot off near the shoulder, leaving only alittle stump under which he could hold hiswhip, kept up with the boldest huntsman ofthe county of Kildare, the hardest huntingground in Ireland, keeping with the houndsin places where the most experienced ridersfound it difficult to retain their seats. A third case is that of an old Englishnobleman who, on becoming blind, was un-able to relinquish his mastering passion. Hepersisted in following the hounds attendedby a valet, who shouted to his master aseach obstacle loomed in sight: Bank ! — Brook ! — Wall! — Fence ! — Jump and jump ! — meaning two ditches, THE HORSE 141 requiring the horse first to jumpdown and
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