44 



THE SPORTING WORLD. 



CHAPTER TIL 



We have now seen the foxhunler on hunting 

 days, say three days a week, let us now look 

 at him on the remaining four. There are men 

 who go into a country for the sole purpose of 

 hunting, and having there nothing else to do, 

 and their means affording the necessary appliances 

 for so doing, hunt every day in the week ; but 

 this is rarely found to be the case with men 

 who keep foxhounds. They may occasionally go 

 to a fixture to meet a pack hunting an adjacent 

 county or a distant part of the same. This 

 is done more in compliment to a brother master 

 of hounds than from any other reason; for a 

 man of wealth and importance in his county, 

 which we suppose the man to be who keeps 

 foxhounds, is not like the man who I have 



