faints' to 23tii3t(ing Sportsmen. 43, 



to pay him his wa^es ; but, of course, if you were 

 shooting with the latter for the supreme privilege 

 of knocking over a few fat hand-reared pheasants, 

 you would confer upon the keeper a golden tip. For 

 the preservation of the foxes, however, which it is a 

 temptation (if his master is at all lukewarm) for him 

 to destroy, make him, I pray you, no acknowledg- 

 ment. If gentlemen generally did so, even to the 

 extent of a shilling or two now and again, I am 

 convinced that it would set keepers very much 

 against fox-hunting, and greatl}^ diminish our pros- 

 pects of sport. 



It is, of course, unnecessary for a sportsman to 

 subscribe to hounds, that is, if he is judicious enough 

 to change his hunting quarters sufficiently frequently 

 to avoid unenviable notoriety, but let him always 

 be over-bearing in his manner to all holding a less 

 exalted position than himself, or who are, at all 

 events, w^orse dressed ; and, above all, as before said, 

 never let him consider or study the interests of that 

 prosperous individual, the farmer. Fox-hunting may 

 then possibty exist for the enjoyment of you yourself 

 and such as you for many years to come. 



Always take a week or ten days' change at Christ- 

 mas, say to London ; for, although you may by doing 

 so lose a good run or two, you will undoubtedly save 

 having to expend your money upon a multiplicity 



