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know that the fox has crossed the ride. And 

 when a man has viewed a fox and has given a 

 view-halloo, he had better remain perfectly quiet, 

 and not try to get another view elsewhere ; all 

 he gets for his pains is that he is accused of trying 

 to prevent a fox breaking cover ; and certain it 

 is, that though he may not try to do it, he by 

 this does all he can to prevent it, and gets blamed 

 accordingly for having probably spoiled a good 

 day's sport. 



A man's love of hunting, independent of riding, 

 has been estimated, though unfairly, at times by 

 simply remarking his having no thong to his 

 whip. Although it may be unjust to say that 

 such men are not sportsmen, yet, as it happens 

 to every man some time during a season to see 

 a fox break cover and head back, while he is the 

 only person there or near at the time, if he should 

 not have a thong to his whip he has no means 

 of stopping the pack, which come out of cover, 

 and flash half, or probably all the way, across the 

 field, when, had he had a whip to smack, he could 

 have turned them back at once, and have pre- 

 vented the fox from gaining probably half an 

 hour's advantage, by slipping away on the other 

 side of the cover. When men see that their own 

 sport may be injured by this fashion, it does 

 appear most strange that it should have been 



