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days out of seven for their daily bread. Tradesmen and 

 merchants devote every day in the week to their calling 

 to secure an independence for themselves in old age. 

 No necessity, however, exists for any man to hunt six 

 days in the week (unless the huntsman who is paid for 

 so doing) ; but on the contrary, there is a necessity that 

 he should not do so. 



An old gentleman who had been listening very quietly 

 to some young and ardent sportsmen, who were talking 

 of their hunting five and six days a week, very coolly 

 observed, "Well, gentlemen, then it strikes me that you 

 consider the whole business of life to consist in trying to 

 get foxes out of it I" There should be moderation in all 

 things — " Sunt certi denique fines quos ultra citraque 

 nequit consistere rectum.^^ 



Having settled the point that gentlemen would make 

 the best performances in the field, I think we may also 

 assume that next in order come those who have served 

 their apprenticeship to gentlemen huntsmen as whippers- 

 in. I could mention several, but there are two men now 

 at the head of establishments, whom I well remember — 

 Jim Hills, who whipped-in to the Hon. H. Moreton, 

 now Lord Ducie, and Jim Treadweil, who lived for many 

 years with the late Mr. Codrington. A better judge of 

 hounds and hunting never existed than Lord Ducie ; and 

 Mr. Codrington was admitted by all his brother masters 

 of hounds to have been a perfect oracle on the pedigrees 

 of hounds, and everything relating to the noble science. 

 That such masters should have turned out first-rate 

 hands cannot be surprising — admitting, of course, that 

 their pupils had natural talents, which only required to 

 be rightly directed. Jim Hills is by all accounts quite 



