xii. CONTENTS. 



foxes. — Difference of scent. — Run with one. — Riding too close 

 upon the pack. — Hard riders and good riders to hounds. — 

 Advice to young sportsmen. — The balance seat. — Look before 

 you leap into a pond. — A good rider should never part com- 

 pany with his horse, unless both are down together. — The 

 Centaur seat 279 



LETTER XXVII. 



On riding to hounds. — A jealous sportsman. — Light and heavy 

 weights.— A sporting Baronet. — Training hunters. — Irish me- 

 thod. — Making the most of your horse. — Steeple chasing and 

 calf-hunting.— Easter Monday.— Her Majesty's staghounds in 

 the New Forest. — The meet and finish 290 



LETTER XXVIII. 



On the management of yoimg hounds, when first coming into 

 kennel. — Prejudices of huntsmen. — Air and exercise. — Fox- 

 hunting an antidote to melancholy. — A few remarks on hare- 

 hunting. — Hounds best suited to this sport. — Huntsmen and 

 whipper-in. — Peculiar knowledge for breeding hounds success- 

 fully. — The late Mr. Ward. — Harriers should be kept strictly 

 to their own game 303 



LETTER XXIX. 



The advantages of hare-hunting in some respects over fox-hunting. 

 — Reduction of expences in fox-hunting establishments to meet 

 the times. — Mr. Yeatman and his pack of harriers. — Unfair 

 prejudices against hare-hunting. — A random shot at fox-hunt- 

 ers. — Liberality the true spirit of fox-hunters. — Liberal game- 

 preservers. — The Squire of C*****n.— Foxes do not live upon 

 game only. — Letter from an old fox-hunter. — Artful keep'ers 

 turning down foxes when the hounds meet to draw their pre- 

 serves. — Way to detect such practices 315 



LETTER XXX. 



On bag foxes. — Scratch packs hunting them. — An old fox-hunter 

 convicting a master of harriers of hismal-practices. — Improving 

 our breed of foxes. — Run with a dark- coloured fox. — List of 

 hounds on hunting days. — Diary.— Effects of bathing hounds 

 after hunting 329 



