124 HUNTING THE FOX 



quoted sayings that are extracted by Surtees from 

 Colonel Cook's book. One is that which he puts 

 into the mouth of Dick Bragg : "A weedy hound 

 is only fit to hunt a cat in a kutchen." The other 

 is to be found in Mr. Puffington's letter to Lord 

 Scamperdale about the celebrated Beaufort Justice : 

 " The late Mr. Warde, who of course was very 

 justly partial to his own sort, had never any objec- 

 tion to breeding from the Beaufort Justice." 



The Diary of a Huntsman, by Mr. Thomas 

 Smith, published in 1838, contains the diagram 

 of the famous " all-round-my-hat " cast already 

 described in this book ; admirable drawings of a 

 good-looking and a faulty Hound, and of a fresh 

 Fox and a beaten Fox ; as well as some sterling 

 advice to Fox-hunters. This is perhaps the best 

 text-book of the lot after Beckford's work, and 

 should be carefully studied by all Huntsmen and 

 whippers-in. GoodalVs Practice, by Lord Henry 

 Bentinck, can hardly be dignified by the name of 

 a text-book, as it is really only a fragment. But 

 what a fragment ! It is of the kind that makes 

 one long for more of the same sort. Every Master, 

 Huntsman, and whipper-in ought to know it by 

 heart. It is but three thousand words or there- 

 abouts, but from its condensed, terse, and " var- 

 minty " phrases there is more to be learnt about 

 hunting the Fox than from many volumes ten 

 times its size. 



