. Sport . fortunately his are faultless. 16 SPORT. Without hurry, just restraining his impatience (hehas the eagerness of youth), yet leaving him muchto himself, he puts his horse at it in a steady handcanter, dropping his hand at the instant the sensiblebeast takes off to an inch in the right place, andhe is safe over without even a rap. A glorious sea of grass is now before him. Quocunque adspicias, nihil est nisi gratnen et aer! A smooth and gradual slope with comparativelysmall fences leads down to the conventional line of>villows which foreshadows the inevitable brook,without which nei
. Sport . fortunately his are faultless. 16 SPORT. Without hurry, just restraining his impatience (hehas the eagerness of youth), yet leaving him muchto himself, he puts his horse at it in a steady handcanter, dropping his hand at the instant the sensiblebeast takes off to an inch in the right place, andhe is safe over without even a rap. A glorious sea of grass is now before him. Quocunque adspicias, nihil est nisi gratnen et aer! A smooth and gradual slope with comparativelysmall fences leads down to the conventional line of>villows which foreshadows the inevitable brook,without which neither in fact nor story can a goodrun with hounds occur. Now it is that our heroshows himself a consummate master of his ploughed and ridge-and-furrow fields, abovealluded to, followed by the extra exertion of thetimber jump at the top ot the hill, have rathertaken the puff out of his gallant young horse,and besides, from the same causes the hounds bythis time have cfot rather the better of him. In. ^;FA- >^^^ FOX-HUNTING. 19 short, they are a good field ahead of him, and goingas fast as ever. This would the eager and excitablenovice—ay, not only he, but some who ought toknow better—think the right time to recover thelost ground, and put the steam on down the fool! Does the engine-driver put the steam on at the top of Shap Fell ? He shuts it off—saves it :the incline does the work for him without it. Ourfriend does the same ; pulls his horse together, andfor some distance goes no faster than the naturalstride of his horse takes him down the hill. Conse-quently the lungs, with nothing to do, refill with airand the horse is himself again ; whereas, if he hadbeen hurried just at that moment, he would havegone to pieces in two fields. Half a mile or sofurther on, having by increase of pace and carefulobservation of the leading hounds, resulting injudicious nicks, recovered his position on the flankof the pack, he finds himself approaching the may kno
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