ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



can mercilessly afford to draft mute, noisy, 

 skirting, or lame hounds, without getting 

 your pack too short. A puppy show and 

 a luncheon after it are good things; but 

 do not have your huntsman's health pro- 

 posed. Indulgence in post-prandial rhetoric 

 save by the experienced is apt to be 

 dangerous. If you, or your huntsman, or 

 both of you, are new to the country, I 

 should say certainly go cub-hunting yourself 

 every morning, so as to learn the locality 

 yourself, or show it to your huntsman, as 

 the case may be. And let cub-hunting be 

 cub-hunting ; keep your hounds on the dark 

 as much as possible, and never try to have a 

 run across the open. No man can ride to the 



hounds, in the Midlands at anyrate, while 



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