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on his cheap hunter, when hounds run, than the 

 lord-lieutenant on a five-hundred-guinea one. The 

 smallest farmer can ride clean away from the biggest 

 landlord, provided he is the better man. 



Money tells in providing good hunters, but it also 

 provides French cooks and too many luxuries, and 

 that soon takes away the nerve to make use of them. 

 To really enjoy hunting, we must keep ourselves fit 

 and hard. 



There is no sport like it on this old earth of ours, 

 and I often think of the remark made to me by an 

 enthusiast I met in Rio Janeiro, of all strange places : 

 " I have been over a great deal of the world," said 

 he, " in search of sport, but when all is said and 

 done, give me the little stinking fox." 



Major W. Fraser-Tytler. 



The Huntsman ^> ^> y:> 



WHO can hear the cheer of the huntsman, 

 added to the cry of the hounds and the 

 blowing of the horn, without being inspired ? 

 Indeed it is quite a source of regret whenever a 

 clever huntsman has not naturally a pleasant, 

 melodious voice, instead of one probably that may 

 be compared to the grunting of a pig — which has 

 been the case before now. When this is the case, 

 he should try every method to improve it. It 

 should be recollected that many men who go out 

 with hounds have no opportunity of enjoying the 

 sport beyond the find, which is, with the assistance 

 of the voice, often one of the best parts of the day's 

 sport ; but to make it so vox et prceterea nihil will 

 not do, for unless he has a soul for sport, even when 

 most in earnest he cannot cause such delightful 

 sensations to thrill through you as ought, and as 



