FOX-HUNTING 



TAS'T &f TRESENr 



CHAPTER I 



FOX-HUNTING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 



" Here's many a year to you ! 



Sportsmen who've ridden life straight. 

 Here's all good cheer to you ! 

 Luck to you early and late. 



Here's to the best of you ! 



You with the blood and the nerve. 

 Here's to the rest of you ! 



What of a weak moment's swerve ? 

 Face the grim fence, gate, or wall again : 



Ride hard and straight in the van, 

 Life is to dare and deserve ! " 

 1908. 



It is generally admitted that the conditions under 

 which hunting is carried on have materially- 

 altered ; however, there were never more rich 

 men engaged in the sport than now. Every one 

 knows that fox-hunting is more expensive than it 

 used to be, and the subscription should be the 

 most important and carefully considered item of 

 every man's hunting outlay. 



