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temper when obliged, in deference to the wishes of 

 some influential man in the field, to keep drawing, 

 for the sole purpose, as it appears, of eking out the 

 day, for the gratification of those who have nothing 

 better to enofage their time ; and we have seen, 

 under such circumstances, what is called a sham 

 draw, the huntsman not wishing to find a fox, and 

 if he should, take the first opportunity of losing 

 him. Subscription masters are unfortunately so 

 dependent upon their supporters, that they can 

 scarcely be said to have a will of their own ; and 

 there are many of these men who stand out for 

 their money's worth ; and a day's hunting to them 

 is literally to be a day's hunting, or drawing, or 

 following hounds about from covert to covert, be 

 the weather ever so opposed to sport, unless rain 

 is falling in torrents ; the type of man who " won't 

 go home till morning" from a ball or festive enter- 

 tainment. To our mind, however, enough is as 

 good as a feast, and we have never been in the 

 habit of measuring sport by the hour, or continu- 

 ally drawing for fox after fox, until we could see 

 to draw no longer. Even on good scenting days 

 hounds may have too much of a good thing, and 

 if well bred and in condition, they will run and 

 hunt as long as they find foxes, yet not in the 

 same style as when above their work and flushed 

 with success. In these matters we ought not to 

 be guided by the watch, and when a run has 

 exceeded an hour with satisfactory results, dulce 

 doonitin should be the next order of the day. 

 If the weather is favourable to scent, and with 



