CHAPTER II. 



. " Keen on the scent 



At fault none losing heart ! — but all at work ! 

 None leaving his task to another ! — answering 

 The watchful huntsman's caution, check, or cheer, 

 As steed his rider's i-ein. Away they go ! 

 How close they keep together ! What a pack ! 

 Nor turn nor ditch nor stream divides them — as 

 They moved with one intelligence, act, will!" 



Love Chase. 



Management of Hounds — Doing the thing as it should be done — Knowledge 

 of Country essential in the Master and Huntsmen — Compared with an 

 Army — Business of Hunting — Differences in Country — Leicestershire 

 and Hampshire — Necessity of Hounds being qualified for their particular 

 Country — Mr, Smith and the Hambledon. 



That " whatever is worth dohig at all, is worth 

 doing well," is one of those maxims which may be 

 fearlessly asserted, without risk of controversy ; and to 

 no undertaking is it more applicable than to the manage- 



