THE SUMMERING OF HUNTERS. 



Perhaps of all subjects connected with fox hunt- 

 ing, speaking broadly, there is none on which 

 opinion is less settled than the one relating to the 

 management of the hunter during the interval 

 which must necessarily elapse betw^een one season 

 ending and the commencement of the next. Nor is 

 this to be wondered at when we come to consider 

 the subject in all its bearings. We have to take 

 an organism in high condition in April and replace 

 it in high condition in October, to give rest to 

 tissues which have been exercised to their utmost 

 capacities throughout the " season," and to take 

 judicious means in renovating such parts as have 

 suffered unduly from the duties which have been re- 

 quired of them. We have said judicious means. 

 Means are taken in all cases almost without ex- 

 ception, and were we to have to name the most 

 frequent means, we should without hesitation point 



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