xiv CONTENTS 



CHAPTER VIII. 



CUB-HUNTING AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SEASON 



Advertising cub-hunting fixtures — The pros and the cons — Shoot- 

 ing — Gamekeepers' enmity towards foxes — Mr. J. Scott Kerr — 

 Preservation of foxes and pheasants — Non-resident shooting 

 tenants — Sporting orthodoxy — Abuses of cub-hunting — Con- 

 ditioning hunters — "Cecil's" opinions . . . page 26^ 



CHAPTER IX, 



LADIES IN THE HUNTING-FIELD 



Lady Violet Greville — Origin of the side-saddle — Hunting parsons 

 — The late Empress of Austria — Riding masters — Polo for ladies 

 — Riding habits — Lady cyclists . ... page 284 



CHAPTER X. 



FOX-HUNTING AND WARFARE 



The Yeomanry — Authority of Lord-Lieutenants — The War Office 

 notice — Enthusiasm of hunting men — Colonel Bower — Lord 

 Chesham — The Imperial Yeomanry — Apathy of the War Office 

 — The hunting-field as a training ground for soldiers — Scouting 

 — Major-General Baden-Powell — The Transvaal War — Lord 

 Tredegar — Lord Lonsdale — Lord Essex — Lord Dudley — Lord 

 Harris — Duke of Marlborough — Major Dalbiac — Lord Cardigan 

 — Riding forces from the hunting-field . . . page 301 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE SUPERVISION OF GAMEKEEPERS 



Non-residential shooting-tenants — The law relating to poaching — 

 The poulterer — Friction between shooting-men and fox-hunters — 

 — The tenant farmer — How to engage a gamekeeper — Personal 

 experiences — Destruction of wild birds . . . page 325 



