96 Seventy Years a Master. 



wrote some most interesting reading, and 

 advice, about the proper treataient of hounds, 

 in the '' Sporting Remew,'" in 1839. He 

 says : — 



'' There is no animal whose disposition is 

 less understood by the majority of those who 

 avail themselves of his properties than the 

 fox-hound. Perhaps in the field of fifty men 

 there is not one intimately acquainted with 

 the peculiarities of the animal, Avith the 

 mysterious resources of his gifted nature, or 

 with the wonderful extent of his sagacity. 

 There are many Masters and many men who 

 case their lower extremities in boots, wear 

 scarlet coats and carry horns at their saddles, 

 designating themselves as 'huntsmen,' who 

 know as little of the real value of the ani- 

 mal they use, as the run of the creature 

 which the animal pursues, and of each as 

 much as the plodding ploughman knows of 

 the speed of the Arabian courser. In ninety- 

 nine cases out of one hundred, hounds are 

 used as if they are toys, wooden playthings 

 hewn from logs, without feeling of mind or 



