It is only natural that, as time goes on, new styles, new customs, new methods, take the place of the old, and we must make it our business to keep pace with them. In no place are these changes so noticeable as in the hunting field, where to-day we find women in large numbers who can hold their own across country with the best of the men, asking for nothing better than to share the sport and the risks without favour.<br><br>It is so many years since any book has been written dealing with all the matters I have embraced in this volume, on which I am so constantly asked to give advice, that I decided to write chapters on all the most important points.<br><br>Having simply ridden for pleasure, and not being a professional in any way, I can only speak from my own experience.