TO MASTERS OF HOUNDS 



treason on your part to dismiss. He will be 

 master, not you. You will simply be a pay- 

 ing machine to settle all the bills and mount 

 him, and he will constantly be grumbling 

 about his horses, and perhaps will even give 

 vent to his feelings in his speech at your 

 puppy-show luncheon. Far the best plan is 

 to start fresh with your own man, keeping 

 perhaps one of the old staff to show the 

 rest the way about at first. Choose a man 

 of fair experience, and above all do not 

 listen to the accounts of hunt-servants' rid- 

 ing, and be led into taking on one of the 

 boys who get huntsmen's places in these 

 modern days. The majority of hunting-men 

 seem to think that, if a man or a boy will 

 only jump big places, he must be a good 

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