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and powdered footmen forgotten by some of the 

 picnickers. 



It was when the tufters were at work, and my 

 host and I waited on the fir-clad hillside, that we heard 

 a delightful scrap of conversation from a group below 

 us. " Then do you never go to Scotland now ? " 

 said one fair dame. " No," was the reply ; " all our 

 set have quite given it up for the last three years. 

 I like this much better, and it's really cheaper." 



I made the acquaintance of another who had 

 forsaken Scotland for the alluring wildness of the 

 more gentle West, and she confided to me that the 

 strong air of the North did not agree with her, and 

 that she was fascinated with the West country, though 

 both her husband and herself considered stag-hunting 

 " most awful rot " ; but my suggestion that she could 

 stay at home was met by " Why ! one must do 

 something ! " This reason, which has brought so 

 many dilettante fox-hunters to our hunting-fields, 

 without any previous education in the sport, has 

 produced one variety of the type under considera- 

 tion ; and it would be very desirable for the interests 

 of fox-hunting if they confined their attentions to 

 the pursuit of the stag, where they cannot do very 

 much harm. 



It is of the migratory species that we have been 

 chiefly treating up to the present, but the Man who 

 only Hunts Because it is The Thing to Do is to be 

 found also in fair numbers in his native county. 

 Never caring really for the sport, he yet supports 

 the county pack with his purse, and by his presence 

 because his neighbours do so, and pays his subscription 



