94 GAME PRESEEVEKS AXD BIED TRESERVERS. 



CHAI^TER IX. 



THE FOX. 



PoxHUNTi^^G lias perhaps never been better 

 described than by the famous Mr. Jorrocks 

 when he called it ' the image of war without its 

 guilt and only 25 per cent, of its danger — a 

 sport fit for kings ; ' and the huntsman who in 

 giving the toast, 'Fox-hunting,' said that 'he 

 knew the men, and horses, and hounds liked 

 it, and that he thought the foxes did too,' was 

 much nearer the truth than most people 

 would think. They exist in Great Britain that 

 they may be hunted. It is their raison d'etre. 



Will any of the gentlemen who write down 

 foxhunting because it is so cruel a sport hon- 

 estly ask themselves the question whether, if 



