Axioms and Sayings of the Chase 



rats with his bloodhounds when he could hunt 

 nothing else. Mr. Clarke, owner of the Hindon 

 harriers, once saw a hare sit so close by that a 

 hound trod on her, and she did not move then. 

 Captain White, Master of the Cheshire, 1841-55, 

 once played a trick on his hard-riding field by 

 laying a ten-mile drag over the stiffest line he 

 could select. ^^ Only one farmer in twenty feels 

 the direct benefit of hunting" (Mr. J. O. Paget). 

 Mr. Childe of Kinlet, ancestor of Captain Childe- 

 Pemberton (the late), is said to have set the fashion 

 of fast cross-country riding about 1800 ; though 

 in November 1777, the then Marquis of Granby 

 recommended a horse as able to ^'leap well and 

 safely." 



'^ Hunting is a very effective method of forming 

 and improving character ; " a Mr. Westwood Chafy 

 of Ongar had a hunter named ^' Free Trade," 

 which carried him 404 days in thirteen seasons. 

 The old style of hunting — finding the fox by 

 working up the drag — is practised by the Fell 

 packs of foxhounds to-day. Mr. ]. Crozier, Master 

 of the Blencathra, took ofifice in 1839, and held 

 it till 1903. Mr. R. W. Nesfield, late Master of 

 the High Peak Harriers, killed his thousandth and 

 last hare on April 2, 1892 ; his hunting diary 

 described 1235 days. The great Duke of Welling- 

 ton said : ^^ Give me a fox-hunter, for he knows 

 the lie of a country, and makes the best officer." 



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