1 66 FOX-HUNTING 



it, the instinct is buried in the breasts of 

 thousands of non-hunting people, and the 

 undefined sympathy of public opinion causes 

 it to countenance visible damage that it 

 would never tolerate for any arguments, 

 however convincing, of duty to country or 

 indirect benefit to the individual. It is to 

 any thinking being touching to see the 

 patience and kindliness shown, by a class 

 that cannot afford loss, to those who ride 

 over their holdings in pursuit of pleasure, 

 which is often done with too little considera- 

 tion for those without whose passive support 

 their sport must come to an end. 



The question of wire has in many districts 

 become a serious one, but let the hunting- 

 man ask himself how he would regard the 

 subject if his own livelihood and home 



