CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 



Greyhound foxes — Lord Drumlanrig's run — Proposed show of fox-hounds 

 at Tattersall's, as well as advertisements of stallions — Advantages of 

 a Club — Choice of a President — Prizes — Changing foxes — Finish of a 

 run in the dark — Strange place of refuge for a fox— A first-rate 

 whipper-in of even more consequence than a first-rate huntsman — 

 Scene in a lady's drawing room — Refuge in the chimney, and success- 

 ful dislodgment p. 238 



CHAPTEH XXXVIII. 



Difference between wild and woodland bred foxes — Difficulty sometimes of 

 making thefn break covert — Various experiments — The "black bitch" 

 — Smoking them out — Changes and expenses in hunting establish- 

 ments at the present day — Kennels in the grass countries — Sham and 

 real friends to foxes — Vixen and cubs — Earth-stopping in March — The 

 whippers-in ought to visit the earths — Episode of Jim, . . p. 245 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



Tricks of keepers — A master of fox-hounds ought to possess manifold 

 knowledge, as his business is most various in its demands — Farmers 

 generally favourable to fox-hunting — Jim and the farmer's daughter — 

 Foxes which lie idle easily disposed of — The weather constantly blamed 

 for bad sport, without reason — Foxes should have a fair start — The 

 wild system of the present day condemned — Gentlemen huntsmen — 

 "Blood will tell" — Mr. Delme Radcliflfe — Mr. Osbaldestone — Assheton 

 Smith — Not indispensable that a gentleman should always feed his own 

 hounds — Lord Darlington and Mr. Meynell — Feeding hounds after 

 hunting — Quotation from the author of the "Noble Science" — Fox- 

 hunting not intended to be the sole business of life — Whippers-in who 

 have lived under gentlemen huntsmen — Hills and the two Tread- 

 wells . p. 252 



CHAPTER XL. 



On trapping foxes — How to foil fox-killing keepers — Bag foxes— DiS'erence 

 of scent — Run with one — Riding too close upon the pack — Hard riders 

 and good riders to hounds — Advice to young sportsmen — The balance 

 seat — Look before you leap into a pond — A good rider should never 

 part company with his horse, unless both are down together — The 

 Centaur seat p. 259 



CHAPTER XLI. 



On riding to hounds — A jealous sportsman — Light and heavy weights — A 

 sporting Baronet — Training hunters — Irish method — Making the most 

 of your horse — Steeple-chasing and calf-hunting condemned as cruel 

 and absurd — Easter Monday — Her Majesty's stag-hounds in the New 

 Forest — The meet and finish , . p. 267 



