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sionally, when they meet in his immediate neighbour- 

 hood ; he is lost in a big crowd, and never sees much of 

 the hounds. But if a pack of harriers hunts the country 

 round, the boy can often get a hohday to go out with 

 them ; he sees a lot of hound work, there is plenty of 

 room for him, the love of hounds and hunting enters 

 into his soul, and he becomes in after-life a staunch 

 supporter of hunting in all its branches. So that the 

 master of foxhounds, when he is assured that harriers 

 are conducted on proper lines, should on his part 

 hold out' the hand of fellowship to his hare-hunting 

 brother, that they may endeavour by mutual conces- 

 sions to make the two sports work as harmoniously as 

 they always ought to do. 



One word more. Many of our most famous 

 huntsmen, both gentlemen and professional, have 

 been entered at hare ; and if we had to train up a 

 huntsman irom his early youth, we should recommend 

 his serving an apprenticeship of running with beagles. 

 There he will learn to depend on himself in getting 

 to hounds, which is not all done by mere riding, and 

 he will obtain an insight into many minuticE of 

 hunting which are better learnt before a man is think- 

 ing much of the riding part of the business, a thing 

 that will come to him fast enough afterwards. 



And so, both fur its own sake and that of other 



