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and it is only their methods that differ. Between the 

 man who only hunts and he who only shoots relations 

 are, I fear, sometimes strained. If they would both 

 try to remember the old adage : " Do unto others as 

 they should do unto us," and be occasionally ready 

 to sacrifice their own pleasure for the brotherhood of 

 sport, the little bickerings would cease and we should 

 become again a happy family. The man of leisure 

 and with no duties to occupy his mind, whether he be 

 a follower of hounds or gun, is Hable to develop a 

 selfishness and want of consideration for. others which 

 is more or less responsible for the friction occurring at 

 intervals. Most men who undertake the mastership of 

 foxhounds develop a keen sense of their responsibilities 

 and are always considerate of the sporting man's 

 interests, but the efforts of a master to promote good 

 feeling are often marred by some thoughtless member 

 of his field, either by word or deed. No master would 

 ever think of drawing a covert that the owner or tenant 

 was intending to shoot within the next day or two. 

 This, however, cannot be avoided unless friendly 

 relations are established between them, so that they 

 can make their arrangements to interfere as httle as 

 possible with each other's sport 



A good run with a straight-necked fox may some- 

 times upset a master's calculations and lead hounds 

 into coverts he wished to avoid. A letter of apology 

 for the disturbance would follow, and the owner of the 

 shoot, if a good sportsman, would accept the explana- 

 tion in the spirit it was offered, realising that it would 

 be against the traditions of hunting to stop hounds in 

 the middle of a great run. 



The owner of a shoot who forbids hounds to enter 

 his coverts at any time or season, loses much of the 



