192 CUB-HUNTING 



are likely to be sportsmen, and able to 

 appreciate the fact that ] all are there for 

 educational purposes. 



Those who, when the season is in full 

 swing, are crowding and watching for a 

 get away and a good start, and causing 

 throughout the day untold anxiety to the 

 huntsmen, are now in shooting-caps and 

 leggings, chatting and indulging in gossip 

 and chaff in a manner that would be 

 regarded as unprofessional when in tall 

 hats and top - boots. Probably nothing 

 exasperates a hunting-man more than when, 

 on the tip - toe of expectancy, as hounds 

 speak in covert, he is compelled to listen 

 to some bore who thinks the occasion 

 suitable for airing his views on local or 

 Imperial politics, or for relating his own 



