iitm IdI)o f^uiU, autJ ti)eir peculiarities. 6i 



When that is accompUshed, however, the keenness 

 of such bucks knows no bounds, and a hasty " Let 

 me come!" "Now, sir, are you going?" "Get out 

 of the way with that pony ! " or what not, is hurled 

 contemptuously at such other ardent spirit as may 

 have simultaneously hardened his heart to the same 

 pitch. 



The chief features of enjoyment in the days of this 

 division of fox hunters are that they are invariably 

 totally unconscious of tJie existence of checks! Thus, a 

 run of twenty minutes to those with hounds may, to 

 the best of their belief, have lasted an hour, forty-five, 

 or thirty minutes, according to the time it took each 

 individual member of the department under notice 

 to reach the point where it terminated, if he should 

 indeed ever have succeeded in doing so. 



My subject is drawing to a close, and the " AIcAdam- 

 isers " alone now require consideration. These, unless 

 fortune acts fickly indeed, and contrary to tradition, 

 are usually, too, absentees from find to finish, but if 

 they should happen by any happy nick to turn up 

 during a run worthy of the name, it is more frequently 

 than not in an undesirable place, and to the prejudice 

 of other's sport. Their arrival (for they hunt together) 

 upon the scene of action is usually, therefore, greeted 

 with "Hold hard there ! " " Don't override the line !" 

 orsomesuch exclamations of reproof or remonstrance, 



