124 Seventy Years a Master. 



assistance of the farmers, we might as well 

 sell all our horses and hounds, for there 

 would be an end to this greatest of English 

 sports. 



I am bound to admit that some people 

 who hunt are not careful enough. In too 

 many cases, how Httle they care when they 

 come out for a day's amusement, what 

 damage they do, or how much annoyance 

 they cause to the man who is good enough 

 to allow them to enjoy their sport over his 

 land. Some people will ride anywhere, 

 leave gates open for stock to stray through, 

 then go home and dine comfortably and well 

 after a good day's hunting, go to bed and 

 sleep quite peacefully, without a thought of 

 the poor farmer and his men, who may be 

 up half the night searching for colts or 

 cattle which have strayed because of such 

 wicked folly. I never thought it a sin to 

 "let out" some of my choicest at any man 

 I saw doing wilful or foolish damage. Is a 

 man, just because he gives £20 to a Hunt, 

 entitled to look upon himself as such a very 



