82 FACT AGAINST FICTION, 



really and essentially public interests, for tlie good 

 of all, 



I have known gentlemen in the field not satisfied 

 because the master after a good long run, with the 

 death of a fox at the end of it, selected to go home 

 in the best interest of his pack. I have seen such 

 gentlemen very often be the first to knock off and go 

 liome, not remaining out to see the end of it, after 

 the master had found a second fox at their solicita- 

 tion. They should reflect that they can go home at 

 any time when they wish to do so, and that they 

 have but one or two horses out, while the master 

 may have four or five ; and if he finds a second fox, 

 if he values his hounds, he must not whip off as long 

 as the hounds can run. To whip off from a fox is a 

 very bad lesson to hounds : resolute perseverance, as 

 long as the line will serve, should be in the heart of 

 the huntsman, and from him the hounds will take 

 their cue,. 



After the hounds have killed their fox, a good 

 deal may be done by the way in which they receive 

 their fox as their reward, and in the manner they 

 receive the fox they will copy a similar spirit from 

 their huntsman. There should be no sort of sloven- 

 liness, nor sliould a particle of the ceremony be 



