240 FOX-HOUND, FOREST, AND PRAIRIE. 



and perhaps make himself very comfortable in a grass field all 

 night. 



One more word (don't snap your watches so loud, please, 

 beloved hearers) to those who, like myself, come down thus to a 

 "strange countrie " and a novel sport. Besides making your 

 railway journey a delight by aid of the pages of Katerfelto, arm 

 yourself for thorough, and most pleasant, study with Colly ns' 

 " Chase of the Wild Red Deer " (Longman and Co.). You will 

 then start with all the knowledge that anything but actual 

 experience can give you, and enter upon a new field better 

 posted than was he who now proffers the impertinence of advice 

 unasked. 



The Wild Stag on Exmoor will require horses enough for two- 

 days a week, perhaps five days a fortnight. And in August you 

 may, indeed must, accordingly limit your amusement to these 

 days, while your stud may best be fixed at a couple of strong- 

 backed horses and a pony. The pony will carry you to covert 

 and take you to see the tufting ; while your horse each day may 

 be left where the pack are kennelled, and will afterwards show 

 you as much of the sport as immunity from accident and your 

 own luck and prowess will allow. 



In September and October you may extend your stable, 

 stretch your purse, and throw away the cigar of idleness. For, 

 if time be an object only to be got rid of as pleasantly as can 

 be, the saddle may be your base of operations daily, and the 

 process carried out, under a variety of scene and with a 

 constancy of appetite that can compete with Exmoor mutton 

 six times a week. The Stars of the West are out on the hills 

 on two days, and Mr. Snow will show you how a heath fox can 

 be rolled over in forty minutes, with every accompaniment of 

 music and a dashing head. Mr. Froude Bellew will tempt you 

 from your bed to display the powers of the Dulverton pack to- 

 work their fox to death without interference. Mr. Luttrell 

 will hunt the worshipful animal twice a week round Minehead ;. 

 while if you are not above galloping to eighteen-inch hounds 

 after a stout moorland hare, Mr. Chorley will invite you to 



