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on occasion. If you should meet with an}^ opposition 

 from either the tenant or proprietor on whose land 

 you are, acquiesce in his wishes with promptness and 

 civility. You may lose your own place in the run by 

 having to diverge, or even turn back, but you will not 

 have driven a nail into the coffin of sport. Always 

 avoid riding over garden ground and allotments, 

 and if forced to cross wheat or other sown ground, 

 ride as much as is practicable along the furrows, 

 as in crossing fields of roots between the rows, for 

 recollect that those which your horse's shoe bruises 

 will decay when the next frost comes. 



A hunting man, who is indebted to so many for so 

 much, should, moreover, above all things, be liberal, 

 remembering when dealing with his neighbours that 

 ''one good turn deserves another," and that hunting 

 must exist, if at all, on very elastic principles of give 

 as well as take. 



Our sport flourishes, and can only continue to do 

 so from general all-round good fellowship ; and in 

 the little cottage child who runs to open you a gate, 

 recognise a supporter of the sport, as (if in a neces- 

 sarily less marked degree) in the noble master, who, 

 at his own expense, provides it for you in so princely 

 a manner. The endeavours of each should be appre- 

 ciated as they deserve. 



Let us, moreover, individually see that by no dis- 



