SPORTSMAN 63 



Some years since a master of hounds, who 

 hunted them himself, paid the writer a visit at the 

 end of the season, and brought four hunters. He 

 came determined to see everything that happened 

 during each day's sport, and followed the writer 

 everywhere through cover, etc., who soon observed 

 to him that he would knock his horse's legs to 

 pieces if he did not keep the road through a newly- 

 cut wood, because he did not allow his horse to 

 have his head, but was constantly pulling him one 

 way or the other, consequently the horse was 

 blundering against the stubs all the time. It is 

 needless to add the fact that, at the end of the 

 first week, not one horse of the four could go out 

 of the stable, owing to their legs being so bruised 

 and swollen, although others which went over the 

 same ground had legs as clean as a foal's. 



A man who hunts with another man's hounds 

 should open his eyes and ears, but shut his mouth, 

 or he will be likely to have this question put to 

 him, if nothing worse, " Pray, sir, who made you 

 huntsman ? " 



It may be useful for young sportsmen to know 

 that when a fox goes up wind at first, he will 

 often go a mile or two, and then head back down 

 wind ; therefore, if he is not first, his horse will 

 be the better for his not having pressed him ; and 

 if the fox keeps on up wind, he is not likely to be 



