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of tips, and, on 5^our return, your neglect of having 

 complied with this established custom may be over- 

 looked by the hunt servants and others amidst the 

 disbursements of the less ingenious, and you may 

 thus indefinitely escape tendering any substantial 

 acknowledgment to the men who have worked so 

 hard and so successfully to show you sport, or 

 what not. 



Christmas, too, is a good season to migrate with 

 your stud to pastures new. You will thus far have 

 omitted to pay any subscription to hounds in the 

 country in which 3'ou have up till now hunted, and 

 in a new country the Secretary will not probably 

 pay you any very pointed attentions for a month 

 or two, and even then, should you succumb to his 

 importunity, it will be an easy matter for you to 

 get off with a very meagre donation, if you insinua- 

 tingly imply that it comes "' dooced hard on a fellah 

 subscribing to so many packs, 3'ou know." 



You may also be quite sure, moreover, that if you 

 do give absolutely or next to nothing towards the 

 expenses of either pack, that the poverty-stricken 

 landlords and other sporting residents in each hunt 

 will not leave their M. F. H. in the lurch, and that 

 they will as far as possible make up (no matter at 

 what personal self-sacrifice, or inconvenience) such 

 deficiencies as may have occurred, rather than that 



