144 Random Recoi^lections of the 



after having allowed their hobbies to run away 

 with them, found themselves off the line, 

 deserted by their packs, and constrained to 

 seek fresh woods and pastures new. 



Surely it would be a bad day for Old England 

 that should help to bring about the disestab- 

 lishment of fox-hunting — 



" Aye, perish the thought, tnay the day never come, 

 When the gorse is uprooted, the foxhou7id is dumb.'''' 



What would happen to the flower of our 

 youth ? We should lapse into lethargy and 

 obscurity, become an effete people, and a by- 

 word among the nations. 



