23G THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



he received an anonymous reminder to the following 



effect : — 



" How can you expect that the foxes will thrive, 

 If they have no porter to keep them alive V* 



If popularity be not invariably the consequence atten- 

 dant upon a just, a wise, and good government, it is 

 absolutely necessary to the ruler of that microcosm of 

 which we are treating. A master of hounds can have 

 no durable prospect of success, unless he carries with 

 him the voice of the whole country confided to him. 

 In the earlier part of this work, I endeavoured to point 

 out some essentials in his conduct, and some few parti- 

 culars relative to his government in the field. In thus 

 attempting to describe, according to the result of obser- 

 vation, some of the principal features of his character 

 as the leader of a hunt, which should afford no show of 

 reason for being denounced by any, but should boast 

 the strongest claim to the right of being upheld by all, 

 I am impelled by the conviction, that many evils and 

 difiiculties have arisen solely from a neglect of duties, 

 apparently trivial in themselves, but which are, in rea- 

 lity, component parts of the machinery by which the 

 whole system is regulated. If a man's devotion to 

 everything connected directly, or indirectly, with the 

 office, proceed originally from a sense of duty to the 



* Of late years, in Hertfordshire, the establishment of a Poultry Fund, 

 chiefly maintained by contributions from visitors and non-subscribers who 

 hunt, has been highly eff'cctivc, the fund being under the management of 

 the secretary of the Hunt, who is at the pains to investigate all claims 

 and make due compensation for 



