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A. H. : No, I can't say I have. What do you 

 find there ? 



G. W. W. : Well, I find there that some Hunts 

 are quite liberal in their subscriptions and some are 

 very thin in their efforts, but there is a good deal 

 of money that comes firom the hunting man which 

 does not find its way through the Hunt collections. 



A. H. : Yes, perhaps you are right. What do 

 you suggest ? 



C. W. W. : Well, Hurd, I hesitate to make any 

 suggestions. This is really a matter the M.F.H. 

 Association should handle. However, I notice the 

 Wylye Valley Hunt are proposing a 5 per cent, 

 increase in subscription, and the amount to be sent 

 to the Institution. They, at least, should be con- 

 gratulated upon making this move ; perhaps they 

 wouldn't mind my suggesting they should embody 

 in this condition a minimum of a guinea. I hope 

 the example set by the Wylye Valley will be taken 

 up by the M.F.H. Association and the principle 

 adopted as a national one. 



A. H. : Yes and more farmers themselves ought 

 to subscribe to the Institution funds. It's not only 

 a personal insurance against bad luck but it gives a 

 helping hand to those who have fallen by the way. 

 What you have said may set hunting people thinking. 

 We have all got to realize that new relationships 

 have grown up in country life since before the war. 

 Often the big landowner or the Squire of the village 

 has disappeared, and if he is still there, his influence 

 is not what it was. Farmers are more their own 

 masters now, whether they are big men or small. I 



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