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some certain time in the last run, for no two runs are 

 ever really alike to a huntsman, and always something- 

 happens that is essentially worthy of remark — such 

 " infinite variety " have the pleasures of the chase ! 

 Now, with all its advantages, a motor-car going at 

 speed is not adapted for conversation, and I have 

 often wished, when sitting with an interesting com- 

 panion in the tonneau, that we had adopted a less 

 expeditious method of travelling. It must not be 

 supposed that I wish to pose as an obstructionist. 

 The motor-car is here to stay — till we take to air- 

 ships instead ; and as to horses getting frightened by 

 these machines, well, they must just get used to them. 

 That is putting it brutally straight, perhaps, but it is 

 better to say it plainly. In time, in a very short time, 

 horses will care no more about passing a motor-car 

 than they do about passing a mail phaeton, and 

 already they see more of the former vehicle than of 

 the latter. 



The season before last I saw at a meet which was 

 held in front of the residence of a M.F.H. five motor- 

 cars grouped among the hounds and hunt servants, and 

 some of the horses were actually touching the motors, 

 all of which had full steam up. A photograph was 

 taken of the scene, and appeared in one of the auto- 

 mobile journals. The group was arranged to show 

 how horses can be got to accommodate themselves to 

 these monsters which have now taken possession of 

 our roads. So many well-known Masters and ex- 

 Masters of Hounds are ardent motorists nowadays 

 that it would seem quite idle to talk of the harm 

 that can be done to hunting by motor-cars. 



