NOTES FOE HUNTING-MEN 



CHAPTER I 



THE COUNTRY IN WHICH TO HUNT 



I AM taking this subject first, as it affects, in some 

 measure, the class of horse to buy. My own ex- 

 perience has been chiefly confined to the 



Country 



grass countries of England ; but I con- 

 sider that a young man's hunting education is 

 incomplete without a course of woodland hunting, 

 whilst, to become a master in the art of riding to 

 hounds, he should have graduated in the Sister 

 Isle. 



I am, however, now assuming that you are 

 a free and independent sportsman, seeking for 

 a country in which to pursue the fox with most 

 pleasure and profit. 



As dear old Whyte-Melville says, somewhere : 

 * All countries are good in their way— some have 

 collars, all have sport.' 



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