The Httnting-Field 



he is shamefully overriding hounds. So-and-so 

 may be a leading-light in the hunting-field too. 



The harm done to hounds is, that they become 

 slack when hunting slowly and are interfered with. 

 The conditions of the sport may and does vary 

 from day to day, and the thrusting offenders 

 probably drive hounds over the line on a poor 

 scenting day. Many who have no wish to offend 

 are unwittingly lured on to do so, as it is im- 

 possible for the second rank to see hounds all 

 the time. Masters are loth to resort to strong 

 language, or peremptorily to take hounds home. 

 It was this that drove Lord Lonsdale to issue a 

 thoroughly straightforward manifesto to second 

 horsemen, when he held the reins of Quorn 

 management. Advice on every private matter can- 

 not be laid down here. Some hunts will, however, 

 have to resort to a stringent code of rules in 

 due course ; Capt. Heywood Lonsdale lately issued 

 a memorandum in the Bicester country as regards 

 strangers. 



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