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George J. Whyte-Melville. Riding Recollections
Riding Recollections
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. — KINDNESS
CHAPTER II. — COERCION
CHAPTER III. — THE USE OF THE BRIDLE
CHAPTER IV. — THE ABUSE OF THE SPUR
CHAPTER V. — HAND
CHAPTER VI. — SEAT
CHAPTER VII. — VALOUR
CHAPTER VIII. — DISCRETION
CHAPTER IX. — IRISH HUNTERS
CHAPTER X. — THOROUGH-BRED HORSES
CHAPTER XI. — RIDING TO FOX-HOUNDS
CHAPTER XII. — RIDING _AT_ STAG-HOUNDS
CHAPTER XIII. — THE PROVINCES
CHAPTER XIV. — THE SHIRES
THE END
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George J. Whyte-Melville
Published by Good Press, 2021
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You will have little trouble with this kind of hunter while hounds are drawing. He will seem only too happy to stand still, and you may sit amongst your friends in the middle ride, smoking, joking, and holding forth to your heart's content. But, like the fox, you will find your troubles begin with the cheering holloa of "Gone away!"
On your present mount, instead of avoiding the crowd, I should advise you to keep in the very midst of the torrent that, pent up in covert, rushes down the main ride to choke a narrow handgate, and overflow the adjoining field. Emerging from the jaws of their inconvenient egress, they will scatter, like a row of beads when the string breaks, and while the majority incline to right or left, regardless of the line of chase as compared with that of safety, some half dozen are sure to single themselves out, and ride straight after the hounds.
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