HUNTING LORE 



Good sportsman means good fellow. 



R. Browning. 



Alongside Hounds ^^> x£> <::> 



NOT behind hounds, but alongside of them — if 

 only you can achieve such position — it should 

 be your honour and glory to place yourself; and 

 you should go so far wide of them as in no way to 

 impede them or disturb them, or even to remind 

 them of your presence. If thus you line with them, 

 turning as they turn, but never turning among 

 them, keeping your distance, but losing no yard, 

 and can do this for seven miles over a grass country 

 in forty-five minutes, then you can ride to hounds 

 better than nineteen men out of every twenty that 

 you have seen at the meet, and will have enjoyed 

 the keenest pleasure that hunting, or perhaps, I may 

 say, that any other amusement, can give you. 



Anthony Troilope. 



Viewing the Fox .c^ ^o ^o^ 



F a member of the Field views a fox, he should 



J^ turn his horse's head in the direction the fox has 

 taken, stand up in his stirrups, and point with his 

 hat in hand. It may be remarked in passing, that 

 he cannot do this if he has a hat-string. If he 

 is at a place where the huntsman cannot see him, 

 he should holloa. Never mind if it is a fresh fox ; 

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