...groom, who remarked — " It isn't the unting that 'urts the 'orses' 'oofs, but the 'ammer, 'aminer, 'ammer, on the 'ard 'igh road !" However, we who love to follow his stag-hounds through the Vale of Ayleshury, may forgive him for riding badly. Baron Lionel usually takes the command of the hounds on...

...reminded of the poor condition of the hoofs of the horses, he said: "It it not the jumpin' o'er the furze that 'urts the 'orses' 'oofs, but the 'ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer on the 'ard, 'ard 'ighway." It is no disgrace to know more than one language, as many of you do, for ideas, like...

...pavement is dead hard and slippery at that. The English horseman explains "It haint the 'unting as 'urts the 'orses 'oofs, but the 'ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer, on the 'ard 'igh road." All who have seen the strains and tensions of cowpunching and noted the perfect soundness of cow ponies...