The Field-Master and the Field. I2i 



to be running to and fro seeking his catechumens. 

 He will only be setting a bad example which a rush- 

 ing crowd will speedily imitate, until the last state 

 of that hunt shall be worse than the first. Nor is 

 it fair to ask the Field-Master to become an in- 

 structor : his real duty is only to see that the Field 

 is carrying out instructions they should already have 

 assimilated, to which end he should himself be 

 properly instructed. Perhaps the best plan will 

 be for me to give some brief hints as to the duties 

 of members of the Field from the beginning to the 

 end of a hunt. 



To begin with the meet. It is polite to be punc- 

 tual. Every subscriber is invited to ''meet" the 

 Master at an appointed place at a fixed hour. For 

 members of the hunt who are of importance owing 

 to the generosity of their subscriptions, their kind- 

 ness in allowing their water to be drawn, their 

 hospitality at luncheon-time, or for any other reason, 

 to keep the Master waiting when he meets at their 

 gates (unless they have previously notified him that 

 they will not be present) is as much an offence 

 against etiquette as though they kept him waiting 

 when he asked them to dinner. The Master, it 

 must not be forgotten, is the host on these occasions, 

 and subscribers and followers alike are in the posi- 

 tion of guests, and should behave as such. An 

 appreciation of this point would go a long way 



