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master's eye cannot fail to produce a good effect 

 upon all the subordinates. Servants may give 

 themselves airs, and be disobedient or inattentive to 

 the orders of higher servants, but they would not 

 dare to question those of their employer, whom 

 they know also to be thoroughly acquainted with 

 the management of horses and hounds. To be 

 respected and served willingly, not merely with eye- 

 service, the master must be a practical man himself, 

 and take a lively interest in everything connected 

 with his establishment. He must be fond of his 

 bounds and horses, deeply interested in their wel- 

 fare and comfort, and resolute in seeing his com- 

 mands and wishes carried out to their fullest extent. 

 He must be a prime minister over all, and 

 although adopting the suaviter in modo course, it 

 must be the fortiter in re also — implicit attention to 

 his directions the rule to all in authority under 

 him. 



The even condition of the pack depends entirely 

 upon judicious careful feeding, and, as we have be- 

 fore remarked, the huntsman being like the hounds, 

 hungry after a long day, they may be fed too quickly, 

 the greedy getting too much, and the delicate appe- 

 tites too little ; in fact, just as we feel ourselves after 

 over hard work, indisposed to eat at all. It is very 

 often the case that the lightest feeders are the 

 heaviest workmen, some half-dozen doing more 

 towards kilHng their fox than all the rest put to- 

 gether, and from these extra exertions, called forth 

 by the spirit within them, they exhaust themselves 

 more than the gourmands of whom the body of the 



