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there is no excuse for such depredations when game 

 and rabbits are plentiful. Good wild foxes avoid 

 the haunts of men, rarely venturing near farm- 

 houses or villages. 



There are certain rights of country, however, 

 which every master is expected to maintain inviolate 

 against incursions from another pack ; and not to 

 suffer these to be infringed is, whilst he is in office, 

 part of his duty. There is no law for foxhunting ; 

 in fact, the law of the land is against any man 

 trespassing upon others' property, but the mos pro 

 lege has been found sufficiently obligatory, and, as a 

 general rule, one master rarely interferes with a 

 brother master's prerogative. Disputes have arisen 

 as to the boundaries, where outlying coverts have 

 been conceded by the master of one hunt to another 

 many years previously, without stipulations of any 

 kind ; but in this case, when those coverts have 

 been hunted for a length of time by hounds be- 

 longing to another hunt, and with the consent of 

 the proprietors of the land, we consider if the original 

 right was not entirely to be abandoned, tlie coverts 

 would have been occasionally drawn to keep up the 

 title to them. This can only occur in certaiu 

 families of distinction, who have obtained the 

 privilege of hunting a certain district from time 

 immemorial, supporting their establishments nearly, 

 if not entirely, at their own expense — in short, 

 independent masters ; but as this cannot be con- 

 sidered as entailed property, even in a foxhunting 

 point of view, the heir to his own estate must abide 

 by his father's or grandfather's decision in parting 



