TO HUNTSMEN 



under any circumstances, go and ride the 

 fox, leaving your hounds. I have seen many 

 huntsmen do this, but I never yet saw one 

 catch a fox by himself, though I have seen 

 some very nearly do it. 



Your fox is dead and the day over. 

 Travel home quietly, and do not have the 

 hounds hurried. Stop somewhere if the day 

 has been very hard, and give your horses 

 some chilled water or gruel if you can get 

 it ; but do not stop long, and never go 

 inside a house, no matter whose it is. 

 When you get home feed your hounds 

 yourself, with judgment. The man who 

 hunts the hounds should always feed them ; 

 not because feeding them makes them any 

 fonder of you, but because the huntsman 

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