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frequently due to bad shoulders. A shoulder with a 

 good slope that gives a nice balance to the whole body 

 when in motion is the most important point. Then, 

 with a combination of back and loins added to the 

 driving power of thighs, you get an animal that will go 

 fast, stay, and never be lame except by an accident. 



The country that is content to go on these lines, only 

 asks for good sport and wants no useless ostentation, 

 can run their hunt at a comparatively small cost and 

 have no need to go a-begging to the rich for help. 



No one should ever take over the mastership of fox- 

 hounds who has not a real and genuine love for the sport. 

 The desire to appear in the Hmehght, to acquire social 

 position and importance, has often induced wealthy men 

 to add M.F.H. to their names. However much good 

 sportsmen may depreciate these unworthy reasons and 

 deplore the state of mind which actuates such misguided 

 individuals, the latter must not be blamed, but rather 

 the hunt that elected them, who want to enjoy their 

 sport at someone else's expense. 



There have been instances of public -spirited men with 

 only a moderate love of hunting, coming forward to take 

 over a country which, at the time, was threatened with 

 being bereft of both master and hounds. We take our 

 hats off to these kind friends of sport and admire the 

 feehngs that prompt their generous actions. In the 

 majority of these cases it will be found that the country 

 threatened with becoming derehct has been liitherto run 

 on a very extravagant scale and the men hunting in it 

 do not realize they might have just as good sport at a 

 tithe of the cost. 



In these days hunt committees should be composed 

 of a majority of landowaiers and farmers \vith the 

 remainder enthusiastic lovers of the sport. It would 



