ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



pack of hounds is made or marred, and these 

 months must be given up to the Master and 

 Huntsman to make the pack. I am fairly 

 astonished to see that some establishments 

 have actually taken to advertising their cub- 

 hunting fixtures. This is the height of folly. 

 There is no greater nuisance than a parcel 

 of men, women, and grooms, the two former 

 most likely smoking, all of them out on 

 fresh horses, and talking in the rides of a 

 covert. The Hunt servants cannot get about 

 to do their work, and the hounds get kicked. 

 Never commit " the fatal mistake " of not 

 beginning cub-hunting as soon as the corn 

 is cut ; and never take fright, and leave off, 

 because the ground gets hard. To do this is 

 ruination to your entry and to the one- and 



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