HUNTING THE FOX 5 



brought to bear on any given proposition. The 

 life of a thing will ultimately be secured by 

 the number and the ability of the people who in- 

 tend to make it a success. A bad cause well 

 organized may survive long enough to astonish 

 even its own devotees. But a good cause is never 

 lost. Fox-hunting is a good cause, if ever there 

 was one. And the War has surely increased the 

 number and ardour of its supporters. The one 

 thing that all Fox-hunters in the Fighting Services 

 have looked forward to throughout the War was 

 the great day when they would hunt again. 

 Hundreds of boys who had never even ridden 

 before the War found a fresh charm in life by 

 learning to ride and to love horses. Any one can 

 testify to this who has seen the sad faces of all 

 ranks in a Cavalry regiment in the throes of being 

 de-horsed and put on to bicycles. And not only 

 did these boys learn to ride, but many of them 

 while training at home had their first taste of the 

 elixir of the chase, and will be good friends to 

 Fox-hunting for all time. 



On the whole, then, we may expect to be con- 

 fronted with nothing very new in the management 

 of hunting after the War. If there be any one 

 who is temperamentally opposed to sport, and 

 would injure it if he could, he is hardly worth 

 considering. His whole outlook would probably 

 be anti-social and un-English in whatever rank of 



