FOX-HUNTING 141 



letter day has been worked for honestly and 

 is due to no resort to artifice. 



Contrast the pleasure that the man with 

 no idea beyond his boots, coat, tie, galloping 

 and jumping, extracts from a day's hunting, 

 with that which the man who is a genuine 

 " hunter " obtains. Putting aside the social 

 pleasures of the chase, the meeting of 

 friends by the covert side, and the incidents 

 of interest and amusement in the field, the 

 pleasure of the one is dependent on being 

 well mounted in a good country after a 

 straight-necked fox ; and he is an exacting 

 and hypercritical follower of hounds. The 

 other feels the longest day too short, and 

 can enjoy hounds puzzling out a line, 

 bustling a fox through woodlands, or driv- 

 ing him over a moor, with one idea upper- 



