. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. 394 The Book of the Horse. Some twenty years ago Norfolk, which was so famous as a fox-hunting county in the great days of the Holkham sheep-shearings, had no fox-hounds. But since that date two packs have been estabhshed, and carried on with as much vigour as when corn was twelve shillings a bushel, and Mr. Coke* encouraged his tenants to hun
. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. 394 The Book of the Horse. Some twenty years ago Norfolk, which was so famous as a fox-hunting county in the great days of the Holkham sheep-shearings, had no fox-hounds. But since that date two packs have been estabhshed, and carried on with as much vigour as when corn was twelve shillings a bushel, and Mr. Coke* encouraged his tenants to hunt in scarlet; although Norfolk is too arable and too much infested by pheasants to take even second rank as a fox-hunting county. A judge, quoted by William Cobbctt in his " Rural Rides," used to say, "All wine is good ; the best is port, and at least two bottles of ;'. THE S HORSE. In the same way, one may safely assert that all hunting is good. The best is where there is a real find, a real run, .short checks, and a decisive finish, all which can only be combined in fox-hunting. But in hunting, as in every other amusement of a busy people, the majority of its followers cannot choose their place and time ; if they are determined to hunt, they must be satisfied with the hounds—fox, stag, or hare—within reach. Stag-hunting, as carried out with the Royal l?uckhounds, Baron Rothschild's, the Surrey, and some other advertised packs, affords the maximum of hard riding and the minimum of sport, unless drag-hounds be considered to show any kind of sport. Stag-hounds exist for the benefit of two classes: those whose occupations are political, * Ml. Coke, nf Holkham (born 1754), told Benjamin Haydon the artist that he remembered a fox bciiii; killed in the fields svhere Cavendish Square stands, and when Berkeley Square was a capital jilace for Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally en
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