CHAPTER XII. 



Nihil est ab omni, 



Parte beatum." 



HOR. 



' Ille terranim mihi prceter omnes, 

 Angulus ridet." 



Id. 



Hunting from Home — M. F. H. in his own Country — Presents — The late 

 Mr. Hanbury — Popularity — Satisfaction — Rights of Country — Support of 

 Hunting — Errors of Custom — Remedies — Difficulty of Reformation — 

 Earth Stopping — Mr. Smith's Plan — Game-keepers — Habits of Foxes — 

 Importance of Rural Amusement — Decline of Shooting — New Game Bill 

 — Fox-hunting the only Resource — Estimate of Expenses. 



It is highly important to the interests of the Noble 

 Science, that every man, blessed with the means of pro- 

 moting the sport of fox-hunting, should endeavour so 

 to do, to the utmost of his power, in his own country. 



