CONTENTS. Xi. 



catcher and his practices. — Scratch packs general receivers. 

 — Countries should be regularly hunted, good and bad places 

 alternately. — Woodland foxes 225 



LETTER XXII. 

 Remarks on scent. — Is a fox a good judge of it } — Method of catch- 

 ing his game. — A visit to De Ville. — Stoat and rabbit. — Dog 

 foxes in the spring of the year. — The effect of heat upon them 2.36 



LETTER XXIII. 



Greyhound foxes. — Lord Drumlanrig's run. — Proposed show of 

 foxhounds at Tattersall's. — The benefit of a club. — Changing 

 foxes. — Finish of a run in the dark. — A clever whipper-in of 

 as much consequence as a good huntsman. — Scene in a lady's 

 drawing-room with a hunted fox ...... 245 



LETTER XXIV. 



Difference between wild and woodland bred foxes. — Forcing them 

 to fly. — How to make them break covert. — The black bitch. — 

 Smoking them out. — Changes and expenses of hunting esta- 

 blishments in the present day. — The kennels in the grass coun- 

 tries. — Game preservers and keepers. — Sham and real friends 

 to foxes. — Vixen and cubs. — Earth stopping in March, — Duty 

 of whippers-in to visit earths. — Anecdote of Jim . . . 255 



LETTER XXV. 



Tricks of keepers. — A master of foxhounds should be well ac- 

 quainted with his business, which is manifold. — Farmers gene- 

 rally good friends to fox-hunting. — Foxes which lie idle easily 

 disposed of. — The weather always blamed for bad sport unjustly. 

 — Foxes should have a fair start. — Wild system of the present 

 day condemned. — Gentlemen huntsmen. — " Blood will tell." — 

 Mr. Delme Ratcliffe. — Mr. Osbaldeston. — Mr. Assheton Smith. 

 — Not indispensable that a gentleman should always feed his 

 own hounds. — Lord Darlington and Mr. Meynell. — Feeding 

 hounds after hunting. — Quotation from the author of " The 

 Noble Science." — Fox-hunting not intended to be the sole busi- 

 ness of life. — Whippers-in who have lived under gentlemen 

 himtsmen. — Hills and the two Treadwells .... 267 



LETTER XXVI. 



On trapping foxes. — Best plan to foil fox-killing keepers. — Bag 



