In a closely-enclosed country, with slow hounds, a cold , and a fat huntsman, a good jumping is what is mainly required. But to follow fleet hounds across large grass fields, however excellent may be a horse's jumping, however clever at doubles, safe at timber, bold at water; and though to all of these be added every qualification of hand, heel, head, and heart, which an experienced rider can possibly possess, "the tottle of the whole" must amount to "disappointment," 64unless the animal be able to maintain the pace. And yet in a run it does not at all follow that the leading horse is the fastest, that the hindmost is the slowest, that a heaving flank is an indication of lungs, or a still one of good wind. On the contrary, it is often but too true that the first ought to have been the last, and the last the first; so much depends on the manner in which the different horses have been ridden.  
When a man, pursued by a detachment of , is riding to save his own life, or when, at the risk of his life, he is trying to take away that of a poor little fox, success in either case depends of course on the pace at which he can proceed. Now it is a very common mistake in both the instances we have named to endeavour to the desired object by maintaining, like the seconds-h............