CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 

 INTRODUCTION 



Scarcity of records at the beginning of the century — Hunting 

 conducted on a rough-and-ready system — Popularity of modern 

 fox-hunting — Benefits to agriculture — Statistics of financial profit 

 — Personal influence of hunting men on agriculture — Strangers 

 in the hunting-field — Non-subscribers and peripatetic fox-poachers 

 — Shooting-tenants and syndicates of non-resident shooting- 

 tenants — Crowds at meets of hounds — Their ignorance and care- 

 lessness . . . ... page I 



CHAPTER n. 



MASTERS OF HOUNDS 



A list of Masters of English foxhounds during the nineteenth 

 century, with their packs and their dates of Mastership . page 25 



CHAPTER HI. 



BIOGRAPHIES IN A NUTSHELL 



Mr. John Corbet, of Sundorne Castle — His career in Warwick- 

 shire — Trojan — Will Barrow — Stratford-on-Avon — The Black 

 Collars — Famous runs with Mr. Corbet's hounds — Mr. Thomas 

 Assheton-Smith — Young days — Succeeds Lord Foley in the 

 Quorn country — His irritability — His horsemanship — He founds 

 the Ted worth Hunt — Squire Osbaldeston — The "Hercules" of 

 horsemen — M.F. H. for thirty-five seasons — His ubiquity in sport 

 — His kennel-lore — Vaulter — His horsemanship — His behaviour 

 in the field — His Newmarket ride — His racing career — The 



