The Badminton Magazine 1895-12: Vol 1 Iss 5 (1895)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 82
p whether to pass through them or to bear a little to the left, jump the fences, and so keep on rather better terms with the hounds, is the wiser course to pursue. With what admirable ease does Sylvanson throw the fences behind him! His horse skims gaily over the pastures, he sits firmly yet easily… … rently leaving every- thing to his horse, though in fact the community of feeling between them is of the closest, and when presently there is a sus- picion of a peck and a bit of a scramble as the animal lands in a very soft place, he holds it together, quietly sitting still until it has recovered…
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