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master of hounds — Heading foxes — Every man out not a sportsman — 

 Temper must be restrained in a master ; swearing quite unnecessary 

 — Myself, when young, and Farmer Steers— On the yeomen and far- 

 mers of England ; injudicious and unjust abuse too frequently levelled 

 at them p. 130 



CHAPTEE XXII. 



Hour of feeding — Difference of food and treatment — Animal food necessary 

 — Number of hounds to form the hunting pack in field^ — On drafting 

 hounds — One fault not to be overlooked — In what the strength of a 

 pack of fox-hounds consists — Pack of hounds that hunted hare and 

 fox — Horses and hounds of old school — Pack dividing, and each killing 

 their own fox p. 136 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Place of meeting — Where it is best — The master should keep and follow 

 his own counsel — Fox without a brush — Run with the same, and death — ■ 

 Hour of meeting to be strictly attended to — The proper place for first 

 and second whip— Confidence of hounds in a huntsman ; cruelty and 

 roughness utterly misapplied — Different ways of di-awing — Foxes, like 

 dogs, sleejiy in windy weather p. 142 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Draw where you are most likely to find a fox — Morning best time for scent 

 — Fair play to a fox, contrary to Beckford's opinion — No hallooing 

 and whooping on first finding — Most likely places to find foxes early 

 in the season — Hounds spreading wide — Upon drawing coverts and 

 the places and business of whippers-in — Famous hound from Sir T. 

 Mostyn's kennel — Mr. T. Palmer and " Drops of Brandy" — Dinner at 

 his house — Deputy — Old favourites never neglected — Anecdotes of 

 "Old Pilgrim" p. 148 



CHAPTER XXY. 



Laws of fox-hunting — The whole question a lex non scripta, but a matter 

 of custom— How countries are formed and held — Coverts — Eight of 

 master to dispose of them — Right to draw a neighbouring covert — 

 Manner in which coverts may become lapsed — Twenty, if not seven 

 years' undisputed possession, a legal title to a country — Mr. Assheton 

 Smith and the Craven country — -Sir John Cope, in Collingbourne 

 woods — The right of earth -stopping — On running into a neighbour's 

 country — Necessity of good feeling in neighbouring huuts, propriety of 

 forming a club, analogous to the Jockey Club, for the decision of dis- 

 putes as to title of country — Lord Hawke's attempt — Advantages of 

 the existing laws of fox-hunting — Tricks of keepers in destroying foxes 

 by vermin traps p. 155 



