no FOX-HUNTING 



is a little late is annoyed because they have gone 

 before he arrives. The man who coffee-houses 

 when hounds are drawing and gets left behind, 

 considers he has been very badly treated, and, 

 of course, the Master is to blame. The man 

 who over-rides hounds thinks he is doing no 

 harm, and objects to the Master's expostulations ; 

 but when that man sees another committing the 

 same offence he gets very much excited and 

 asks why the other is not called to order. 

 Then there is the man who has lost his nerve, 

 and him we will freely forgive, for though the 

 Master gets most of the abuse, the groom, the 

 horse, the country, and the huntsman all come 

 in for their share, and the poor nerveless creature 

 is never happy until he reaches home again. 



The troubles of a Master are not only those 

 connected with his day's hunting, for they are 

 only trifles compared to covert-owners, farmers, 

 and the general management of a country. The 

 farmer will write an imperative summons to hunt 

 the foxes which are killing his poultry, and by 

 the same post will come a letter from his 

 neighbour to say he does not want the hounds 

 because his ewes are heavy with lamb ; the land- 



