90 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



CHAPTER V. 



I must return for a brief space to foxhounds, 

 in order to exemplify what I am going to say 

 relative to farmers' packs of harehounds in 

 different counties, or rather the field that attend 

 them. 



The fields of Mr. Coyner's hounds are, or 

 at least were, as different to that of their neigh- 

 bours who hunted the Hatfield country, as are 

 the company attending a Lord Mayor's ball to 

 the elite of one given by the Duke of Welling- 

 ton. "While again the rough, hard riding, 

 wealthy farmers who compose the majority of 

 the Holderness fields, are as different from the 

 class of men visiting the Queen as human 

 beings can well be, pursuing the same pursuit. 



