64 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



fox run to ground in a neighbouring hunt. Next follow the 

 allusions to Essex which we have already quoted, and 

 then the writer gives advice as to artificial earths and 

 coverts, and the hunting of large woodlands. 



On the subject of " hunting countries," he points out 

 that by law the owners of coverts can allow whom they 

 please to hunt them and therefore it is most important that 

 the boundary of a country should be held sacred ; and he 

 tells how, being a good deal disturbed by some hounds 

 which often disturbed a covert belonging to Lord Maynard, 

 he mentioned the circumstance to his lordship ; who was a 

 strict preserver of foxes, and one of the best of men. He 

 said : "If you insist upon it, 1 will send them a written dis- 

 charge ; but I, as an old sportsman, would advise you to 

 arrange with them in a milder way : it is a bad precedent, 

 and they may retaliate by instigating persons to send you 

 a similar discharge in another part of your hunt, and annoy 

 you very considerably." 



For procuring a stud of hunters, he recommends 

 Messrs. Tattersall and the London dealers. He prefers 

 thorough-breds to "cock-tails," and approves of "Nimrod's" 

 system of conditioning and of Mr. Corbet's method of 

 training hunters. 



In a pathetic description of the trials of a Master in 



