358 LEAVKS FROM A IIUNTINC DIAUY 



AU work and no play is good for no one, and ninety per cent, of our 

 population have probably their own pet amusements. Hunting, shooting, 

 fishing, cricket, football, golf, bicycling, stamp-collecting, these all beat 

 bull-lxiiting and cock-fighting. Perhaps when we reach the Millennium, 

 they in turn will have given way to something more elevating and more 

 refined. The lion will he down with the lamb, cats will give up catching 

 mice, and hawks and magpies will turn vegetarians. 



Of course a Master of Hounds is on a different footing, and it is his 

 duty and not alwavs his pleasure, that takes him out three or four days 



Tresham and Guy Gilbey 



Iron, a /■l,oiOi;>a/>h by Mrs. Tirshnin Clth-y 



a week when his pack takes the field, but in doing so he is serving the 

 interests of the many. But the many go out when they will and for their 

 own delectation. Nevertheless, I think that it is more than doubtful 

 whether they would look upon Yeomanry drill, with its strict regulations 

 and fixed hours, as a satisfactory, though I grant that it would be a more 

 patriotic, substitute. Mr. Humplueys, however, may rest assured, if ever a 

 foreign foe should threaten the shores of our dear old country, that every 

 Hunt in the United Kingdom would send its <iuota for the defence of our 

 shores. 



