BRINGING THE HUNTER HOME AND THE 

 CARE OF HIM AFTER HUNTING 



DIFFERENT times have different customs, 

 and now-a-days the wealthy sportsman 

 motors to the fixtm'e, and endeavours to 

 fall in with his motor car when the day's sport is 

 over. With a man motoring to the fixture, if his 

 time is so valuable as to necessitate it, no fault can 

 be found. His horse has not to carry him at any 

 rate, and if he is in reliable hands will be taken 

 on at a sober pace, which is a matter of much 

 importance. 



But it is rather different about coming home, 

 and sometimes a considerable distance of ground 

 is covered in looking for the motor car. It is 

 impossible to tell with any degree of certainty 

 where hounds will finish and the time that is 

 spent in trying to pick up a motor car would be 

 better employed in making the best of the way 

 home. It is of course easy to tell the chauffeur 

 to be about the Cat and Custard Pot at from 

 3.30 to 4 p.m. and to keep on the qui vive. But 

 hounds may have finished some miles from that 

 excellent hostelry and nearer home. I have 

 known a hunter taken a couple of miles out of 

 his direct way home to meet the motor car more 



