CHAPTER FIVE. 



THE M.F.H. 



THE Master is certainly an autocrat, but at the 

 same time he is the unpaid servant of his field and 

 the serA^ces requu'ed of him are by no means light. 

 Gratitude for the work this man does and for the money 

 he spends might be expected from those that hunt with 

 him, but unfortunately such is often not the case ; 

 carping criticism and unkind comments frequently are 

 his only reward. 



The duty of the field is to obey the master's behests 

 without query or remark, and when that individual 

 chooses to use strong language to enforce his orders, the 

 unpalatable epithets must be swallowed Hke honeyed 

 words. It may happen occasionally that the recipient 

 of the master's stinging remarks has been unjustly 

 accused and he will naturally feel rather sore, but 

 however much he would like to remonstrate and plead 

 ** not guilty," he must keep his mouth closed and say 

 nothing at the moment. Later in the day or when a run 

 is over and the difficult task of controlhng an over-eager 

 field is no longer worrying the master's mind, an oppor- 

 tunity may be found to explain the situation. Perhaps 



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