170 FOX-HUNTING 



be remembered that these men are brother- 

 sportsmen ; circumstances or the ties of 

 business may have placed hunting out of 

 their reach. Love of field sports has led 

 many men to make pecuniary sacrifices to 

 obtain shooting for themselves and their 

 friends. There is many a hard-worked man 

 of business whose sole recreation consists 

 in a day snatched from the cares of his 

 office, or earned by working overtime. He 

 may have one covert, affording one or two 

 days' sport out of the year, and he naturally 

 looks forward to these rare occasions ; but 

 to have his little preserve rummaged by 

 hounds, and himself abused for not having 

 a fox always within it, will never teach him 

 to love the fox-hunter. Great care should 

 be used by an M.F.H. not to disturb and 



