PREFACE 



At the request of many Masters of Foxhounds — 

 some of them old and dear friends, others kindly- 

 acquaintances — these sketches, which appeared origi- 

 nally in Land and Water and the County Gentlejnan, 

 have been produced in book form under the able 

 editorship of my friend, Mr. E. D. Cuming. Many 

 of the chapters were suggested to the writer by 

 Masters of Hounds, and his thanks are due in par- 

 ticular to the late Mr. Robert Watson and his son, 

 the famous Master of the Meath ; to Miss Somer- 

 ville, to Lord Waterford, Mr. C. F. M'Neill, Mr. W. 

 Selby Lowndes, Major Wise, Captain W. Standish, 

 Mr. H. L. Langrishe, Mr. R Burke, Mr. Nigel Baring, 

 Mr. E. A. V. Stanley, Mr. A. FoUok, Mr. Isaac Bell, 

 Lord Southampton, and many others. 



W. B. FORBES. 



