CONTENDS 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. Fox-hunting in the Twentieth Century i 



II. The Origin of Fox-hunting — A Glimpse 

 AT Melton to-day and as it was in 



its Infancy 8 



III. The Quorn Hunt i8 



IV. The Master of Hounds .... 30 

 V. The Cost of Hunting .... 40 



VI. The Horse and the Country to Select 47 



VII. Hunters and their Stables • • • 55 



VIII. Feeding and Conditioning of Hunters, 



and some Remarks on Saddlery . . 60 



IX. Hunting Centres 68 



X. Some Axioms and Sayings of the Chase 73 



XI. Stag-hunting 81 



XII. Cub-hunting and After — Beckford and 



NiMROD ....... 89 



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