144 Otters and Otter-Hunting. 



book seats in any brake or other conveyance 

 employed to take followers to the meets. 



He will receive the list of fixtures from the 

 Master, have them printed on postcards and 

 despatched to the members in good time, and, if it 

 is customary, send copies to the local and sporting 

 papers. He will be most particular in advising 

 landowners, tenant-farmers, millers, angling clubs, 

 riparian owners, fishing tenants, and others by 

 whose permission or courtesy the hunt alone exists, 

 of the intention to visit their water on a fixed day. 

 Meets of O'tter-hounds should be arranged if pos- 

 sible a month at a time, and, a provisional list hav- 

 ing been drawn up, the different classes of people 

 mentioned above should be privately notified in 

 order that, if any alteration in the programme has 

 to be made for any reason, it may be done before 

 the printed cards are Issued. 



He should be able to write a good letter to the 

 Press if occasion arise, and unless, as is generally 

 the case, some member of the hunt specially 

 undertakes the work, should be competent to send 

 a well-written account of the day's proceedings 

 to the Field, Horse and Hound, or other sporting 

 weekly paper. In order to succeed in this particular 

 he must know what is the proper day to send in 

 his " copy," so that it shall not be " crowded out " 

 or consigned to the /' W.P.B." 



