I04 THE COMPLETE FOXHUNTER 



line of action is simple enough ; he has merely got to 

 subscribe to each of the packs he intends to visit, and 

 then go where he likes. 



But the man of moderate means who is located in a 

 similar position had far better subscribe to and hunt 

 with one particular pack, even if he sometimes has to go 

 a dozen miles to covert, while the other pack is meeting 

 only half the distance from his home. Broadly, it may 

 be taken that the man who can afford to hunt two or 

 three times a week is, or should be, in a position to sub- 

 scribe to two packs. He may have two days a week 

 with one and a third day with the other, and if (suppos- 

 ing there is no fixed subscription with either) he gives 

 ;6^20 to the pack he hunts twice a week with and ;^io to 

 the other, he is doing the proper thing by both. We 

 have in our mind the resident in a little country town 

 where three hunts converge ; he keeps three horses and 

 hunts on an average seven days a fortnight, and he 

 subscribes i^i5 to each of two packs and ;^io to the 

 third (with which he hunts least), and can therefore 

 pick and choose his meets; and when he told us this he 

 went on to explain how he would double his subscrip- 

 tion if it were not for "the litter of puppies he had out 

 at walk." For a moment we did not understand the 

 allusion, but when he explained that he had a boy at 

 Haileybury, another at Clifton, a third at Cheltenham, 

 and a " brace of young vixens " at a finishing academy 

 at Brighton, we really understood him. 



Another prominent question with regard to subscrip- 

 tion is of quite recent origin, and not very easy of 

 solution. It is what may be called the short-time 

 subscription, and at present it has taken no very defi- 

 nite form, but we can see that it will be a matter for 

 consideration in the very immediate future of many 



