Show TIRE PEXCES AXD POX HCXTERS In the great grazing grounds of the Shires farmers long ago discovorad that wire was an excellent substitute for oak ralMne in their ox fences Why they should ever have deemed it necessary to Ptreirgtlieii with outworks those blackthorn black-thorn fortifications Is a matter on which sportsmen are insuffloieTitly informed tert ware soon became so popular In the Midlands that the county was ast le coming as unritilble as it is this moment the immediate neighborhood of London I Lord OrsloW has shOTm uj in a voi cme of the Badminton library how perfectly per-fectly horses at the antipoles are trained to jump < wire fences which art of course visible enough and how they may even be taught by pofienoc to make oJlovrance for a single wire run through a brush fence In other words to chance nothing and toptvrig everything every-thing But no > horse can ever be expected ex-pected to allow for something he cannot see on the takeoff side of a fence so that evidently if riding to hounds was to be anything more than galloping alons roads or through gates the ware guard must cease to prevail A wire fund aceordiijgIy had to be rotetid for the payment to such farmers as would enter into the arrangement of all expenses connected with letting down the wJre during the winter months and reptabimj it in cho spring English e riculturlsls fceins as a class the most goodnaturea of men this plan was very acgely tlhtofugti far from entirely sue eessful enouffb of the country was free from the Iron impediment to enable men r to ride with confidence over large tracts but th re were always plenty of places where the occupiers were impracticable and < where jumping except for the blissfully bliss-fully ignorant cr splendidly reckless was talwa Still the danger spots were pretty weH known for the farms being larjre the local committeemen who had tha snaitageaiont of the modus vdvendi liad each a comparatively small number of persons with whom to treat Tho nUona1 Review |