ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



whippers-in have been working yours hard. 

 They can jump or not as they like, and if they 

 lose the hounds they can go back to break- 

 fast, while you and the whippers-in must 

 stick to the hounds at all costs. Besides, the 

 young hounds do not understand it at first, 

 and simply follow the old ones, and do 

 themselves no end of harm by getting lost, 

 stopping in ponds, etc. 



Always remember you are the servant of 

 your master, not of the field, and his orders 

 should always be not to get away in the 

 open in the cub-hunting season. 



In regular hunting the whole system is 



reversed. Then you try and get away with 



the first fox that leaves, presumably the 



best one. If you cannot get all the hounds, 



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