As to the beauty of the Amateur 2 hunting-horse, though, I think Amateur 2 I must hedge a
little, while I stand firmly to my admiration of his use. To be honest,
the tandem horse is more Amateur 2 to Amateur 2 my Amateur 2 taste. He is better shaped, and he
bears
himself more proudly. The hunter is apt to behave, whatever his reserve
of intelligence, like an excited hen; he is apt to be ewe-necked Amateur 2 and bred
away to nothing where the ideal horse abounds; he has the behavior of a
turkey-hen when not Amateur 2 behaving like the common or garden hen. But there
can be no question of his jumping, which seems to be his chief business
in a world where we are all appointed our several duties, and I at once
began to take a vivid pleasure in his proficiency. I have always felt a
blind and insensate Amateur 2 joy in running races, which Amateur 2 has no relation to any
particular horse, and I now Amateur 2 experienced an impartial rapture in the
performances of these hunters. They looked Amateur 2 very much alike, and if it
had not been for the changing numbers on the sign-board Amateur 2 in the Amateur 2 centre of
the ring announcing that 650, Amateur 2 675, or 602 was now jumping, I might have
thought it was 650 all the time.
A high jump is not so fine a sight as a running race when the horses have
got half a mile away and look like a covey of swift birds, but it is
still Amateur 2 a fine sight. I became very fastidious as to which moment of it
was the finest, whether when Amateur 2 the horse rose in profile,
or when his
aerial Amateur 2 hoof touched the ground (with the effect of half jerking his
rider's head half off), or when he showed a flying heel in perspective;
and I do not know to this hour which I prefer. But I suppose I was
becoming gradually Amateur 2 spoiled by my pleasure, for as time went
on I noticed
that I was not satisfied with the monotonous excellence of the horses'
execution. Will it be credited that I became willing something should
Amateur 2 happen, anything, Amateur 2 to vary it? I Amateur 2 asked myself why, if some of the more
exciting incidents of the hunting-field