Peter Hawker

This may arise either from inability to walk, or from disinclination, or perhaps from both combined in many instances.

Colonel Hawker advised that the sportsman should have a pony calculated to carry double, and that in this way not only he but his marker would be able to get over the ground better than on foot.

On the moors, no doubt a bad walker has a poor chance, and as the distance to begot over is very considerable, we can hardly wonder that those gentlemen who only walk should require assistance.

When a pony is used for this purpose, the shot is sometimes taken from his back, but generally speaking, the rider dismounts when his dogs find and leaves his quadruped to take care of himself while he reloads.