126 Seventy Tears a Master. 



must always have your hand in your pocket, 

 and a kind word for every one. 



Now for a few passing reflections on 

 those things that may be primarily deemed 

 the active duties of a Master of Hounds. I 

 think that in the first place he must be 

 popular. The man whose study it is to 

 please the many has a task of no easy de- 

 scription, and yet, unless a Master can 

 accomplish it, he can neither expect a sub- 

 scription sufficient to meet his expenses, 

 preservation of foxes, nor anything like a 

 satisfactory extent of country. I should 

 explain that I am alluding particularly to the 

 Master of a subscription pack, for it must 

 be obvious that if a gentleman hunts his own 

 hounds, without receiving subscriptions, he is 

 not open to the same difficulties, and is not 

 so dependent upon his powers to please 

 Dick, Tom, or Harry. But the Master of a 

 subscription pack has far more to contend 

 with. Land-owners and occupiers, or covert 

 owners, are not compelled to permit twenty- 

 five couples of hounds to draw a covert in 



