ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



sistent with hunting the country fairly. But 

 there is one thing I could never find it in 

 my heart to do, which is, to stop the 

 hounds when running hard for a game-pre- 

 server's covert. If you are Master of a pack 

 which belongs to the country, I say you 

 have no right to spoil the hounds belonging 

 to the county gentlemen by disappointing 

 them in this way. No; by all means steer 

 clear of the shooting-parties, and meet the 

 shooter's wishes as much as you can, but by 

 no means, and for no man, stop your hounds 

 when running. 



I should never advise anyone to take a 

 country in which there is an old-established 

 huntsman, a favourite with everyone, and 

 one whom it would be something like high 



