CHAPTER VI 



the huntsman — continued 



" I have always thought a Huntsman a happy man ; his office 

 is pleasing, and at the same time flattering ; we pay him for 

 that which diverts him, and he is enriched by his greatest 

 pleasure ; nor is a general after a victory more proud than is a 

 Huntsman who returns with his fox's head." — Beckford. 



N our last we glanced at 

 the character and some 

 of the duties of the 

 Huntsmen, and ran over 

 the names of several w T ho 

 have distinguished them- 

 selves in their calling. 

 The list was composed 

 more of by-gone or fad- 

 ing flowers than of the 

 rising geniuses of the present day, because it creates 

 no jealousy to award praise where all allow it, and 

 our object in writing these sketches is to encourage 

 a wholesome spirit of hunting, and not to flatter 

 this man or that at the expense of his neighbours. 

 Comparisons are always odious to some one, and 

 there is no truer saying than that a Huntsman's fame 

 rises and falls with the sport he shows. At the same 

 time it is but justice to add, that there are many 

 Huntsmen at work in our different counties whose 

 fame will bear comparison with the best of those gone 



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