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persuasion," one can only hope that circumstances 

 will intervene, and the man will shortly betake 

 himself to another part of the country where the 

 woodlands never hear the cry of hounds. 



If coverts are large enough, foxhounds interfere 

 but little with hand-reared pheasants beyond making 

 them a little wilder, and thus giving more sporting 

 shots when driven to the guns. In smaller coverts, 

 especially where the boundaries are not far away, 

 the birds might be driven out by hounds drawing, 

 and possibly would not come back to their feed, 

 and be lost to the man who reared them. 



I was once discussing the hunting and shooting 

 question with a shooting tenant, who was a good 

 sportsman in every way, and this is what he said: 

 " Let the hunting man learn to give and take a little 

 and not want everything to fit in with his arrange- 

 ments, and to remember that the shooting man is 

 often sacrificing a portion of his sport in many 

 instances when he is not only in word, but in deed, 

 a friend to foxhunting." 



The Farmers,— T\v^\. the farmers have .stuck so 

 loyally to hunting through the past few years of 

 bad'times only proves how great the love of sport is 

 ingrained in them. 



That hunting benefits agriculture no one will 

 deny. The two and three hundred guinea hunter 

 is the product of the land, whilst the thousands 

 of hunters must consume thousands of quarters of 



