LETTER XXIX. 



Hare-hunting has some advantages over fox-hunting. 

 The expenses attending it are trifling; you can select 

 days best suited to sport without giving offence, or 

 causing inconvenience to others. If the day you have 

 appointed turns out boisterous, you can go out the next. 

 There is no earth-stopping to be done, therefore one day 

 will do as well as another. Harriers also, cannot be 

 worked too much in reason. You can select also your 

 own hour, and make your amusement subservient to 

 other engagements or avocations. For these reasons I 

 should prefer keeping harriers to foxhounds, as so many 

 inconveniences and responsibilities are attached to the 

 latter in the present day. 



The constant changes which are taking place annually, 

 almost, in fox-hunting establishments, prove that the 

 system is carried out too far ; and as the resources of 

 country gentlemen are now so much reduced, my firm 

 impression is, that fox-hunting must be brought down to 

 its proper level, and conducted upon a much more 

 economical footing to suit these free trade times. No 

 doubt, in the best countries, where there is no lack of 

 friends and supporters, the thing will be carried on as 

 usual, and, also, where there is a rich man at the head of 

 the establishment, who is a thorough sportsman. But in 



