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Edward VII. They have no taste for the real 

 sport ; they care nothing about it ; they know 

 nothing about it ; and, worst of all, though they 

 engage in it so largely, they never seem to try to 

 learn anything about it. 



Hence the constant appeals and remonstrances from 

 Masters of Hounds in the field and from Masters and 

 others which appear from time to time in the 

 sporting papers. The man or woman who hunts 

 Because it is The Thing to Do is no fancy type, 

 and too often is an unmitigated nuisance. 



Last of this series of types let me place the Fox- 

 hunter on Wheels — not the man who hunts on wheels, 

 if you please, because some of the most interested 

 and successful of those who pursue the fox in this 

 fashion are ladies ; indeed, my own experience leads 

 me to declare that there are some ladies whose talent 

 for seeing something of every run from a light pony- 

 trap is little short of marvellous. 



This degree of excellence is, however, the result of 

 considerable practice and experience, and great know- 

 ledge of the country ; but, besides this the successful 

 driver must assuredly have a very real knowledge 

 of hunting and the run of a fox. Few hunting days 

 go by in my part of the country, no matter what the 

 state of the weather may be, that do not bring certain 

 traps to the meet. Few runs are brought off when 

 one of them at least is not within hail of the finish, 

 the owner being sometimes actually present, having 

 left the trap in the nearest road. 



In his Riding Recollections, Whyte-Melville, referring 



