CHAPTER VI 

 HUNTING LOCALITIES 



THE MIDLANDS 



IT is an undoubted fact that the hunting countries 

 of England vary in what may almost be called an 

 extraordinary manner, and many men and women 

 there are who have followed foxhounds during the best 

 part of their lives, and yet are unaware of the great 

 physical differences which exist between one country 

 and another. No doubt in the early days of the sport 

 a huge majority of hunting men were content to 

 remain at home, and saw no countries except their 

 own and its immediate neighbours. Now people go 

 about much more, and the average hunting man of 

 to-day has a far bigger experience of localities than 

 his father or grandfather had, but all the same a big 

 majority of the hunting community hunt from home, 

 and are very much in the dark as to what goes on in 

 that part of the hunting world which does not come 

 under their notice. 



And no doubt nine men out of ten always like best 

 the country they have known from childhood, and 

 would rather remain where they are than go elsewhere, 

 provided, of course, that a fair standard of sport is 

 maintained. Others are from disposition wanderers, 

 or from the force of circumstances have the chance 

 of seeing many countries, and such men after a while 

 as a general rule find that they prefer one particular 



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