FEI.I. HUNTING 



and hound work, can hunt more cheaply in 

 Lakeland than in any other country with which 

 we are acquainted. The Hunt expenses are a 

 drop in the ocean as compared with the huge 

 sums expended in the fashionable Hunts, and 

 subscriptions are within the reach of the poor 

 man's pocket. There are many worse hunting 

 countries than Lakeland despite its rugged nature, 

 for the foxes are wild, the hounds adapted to their 

 work, and the sport has no taint of artificiality 

 about it. Nor is sport interfered with by rail- 

 ways, motors, or unmanageable crowds, such as 

 greet the eye in a fashionable country. The 

 country is little different to-day to what it was 

 in John Peel's time, and from a fox-hunting point 

 of view, long may it remain so. 



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