6 NOTES FOR HUNTING-MEN 



present.' And, lifting his hat-string high, he 

 bowed and joined his huntsmen. Imagine Mr. 

 Fernie or Mr. Wroughton making an oration like 

 that! 



It must be remembered, however, that this 

 hunting at high pressure entails a far more 

 Hunting expensive establishment, and that those 

 pressure who migrate to these favoured pastures 

 are in duty and honour bound to pay well for 

 their sport. In whatever else you economise, be 

 liberal in this. There is no sport, giving the same 

 amount of pleasure, for which you pay so little as 

 for your hunting. I do not count the stable ex- 

 penses, which are purely personal. Compare the 

 rent paid for a moor, a river, or a forest, and the 

 subscriptions given even by wealthy men to the 

 ' sport of kings.' I am touching on delicate, perhaps 

 dangerous, ground ; but I feel very strongly that 

 the question will have to be faced in the near 

 future, and that something will have to be done, 

 in these days of rapid locomotion, to ensure that 

 every man who rides over a country pays for that 

 great privilege, even if only indirectly. I have 

 known men, who have come from a distance to 

 hunt in the Midlands, excuse themselves for 

 sending a miserably inadequate donation to the 

 hunts they honoured with their presence, by saying 

 that they are paupers. If that is so (and I have 



