THE NOBLE SCIENCE. ^ 



ment of a pack of foxhounds. To do the thing well, 

 and as it should be done, ought to be the primary object 

 of any one aspiring to the office : but let us consider in 

 what does this well-doing consist. It will not be found 

 alone in the tout ensemble, the faultless appearance of the 

 turn out. Too much attention cannot be paid to the 

 due efficiency of all appointments, with regard to " dogs, 

 horses, and men ;" but an aspirant for fame, as a master 

 of foxhounds, may give an exorbitant sum for a pack 

 of hounds of unquestionable celebrity, — he may give 

 carte blanche to Anderson, Bean, and Elmore, to fill his 

 stables : — he may secure the services of the best of hunts- 

 men and whippers-in, — he may bring all these into the 

 best of countries, — still it is no paradox to say, that, 

 with all these means and appliances to boot, the thing 

 may not be done well, or as it should be done. I have 

 heard of men, ambitious, formerly, of emulating the place 

 of Lord Jersey, and such performers over a country, 

 who have, in the purchase of the very horses which they 

 had followed as brilliant lights, considered that they had 

 attained the summum bomim, the grand requisite to go 

 and do likewise ; and woful has been their disappoint- 

 ment at finding that, without the presiding genius, — the 

 head-piece, which has ruled the hand which guided them 

 to glory, — the implements were but common tools in 

 hands of ordinary workmen ; and they were little, if any, 

 better than in statu quo. With all due allowance for 



