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or two more in the course of the afternoon, 

 we did not get another really first-class run. 



At Geneseo the conditions for the enjoy- 

 ment of this sport are exceptionally favorable. 

 In the Northeast generally, although there 

 are now a number of well-established hunts, 

 at least nine out of ten runs are after a drag. 

 Most of the hunts are in the neighborhood of 

 great cities, and are mainly kept up by young 

 men who come from them. A few of these 

 are men of leisure, who can afford to devote 

 their whole time to pleasure; but much the 

 larger number are men in business, who work 

 hard and are obliged to make their sports ac- 

 commodate themselves to their more serious 

 occupations. Once or twice a week they can 

 get off for an afternoon's ride across country, 

 and they then wish to be absolutely certain of 

 having their run, and of having it at the ap- 

 pointed time; and the only way to ensure this 

 is to have a drag-hunt. It is not the lack of 

 foxes that has made the sport so commonly 

 take the form of riding to drag-hounds, but 

 rather the fact that the majority of those who 

 keep it up are hard-working business men who 

 wish to make the most out of every moment 

 of the little time they can spare from their 

 regular occupations. A single ride across 



