124 HARE-HUNTING 



parable pleasures of the chase. The man 

 on foot, if wind and limb will not allow him 

 to be with them, can see much of the game 

 from the hill-top, if not from the gate-post ; 

 while the man on his only mount may see 

 every detail of the hunt and have his three 

 days a week ; he has, too, one advantage 

 over the fox-hunter, that he is more sure 

 of his entertainment. His disappointments 

 are fewer, for he does not expect a 9-mile 

 point or forty minutes racing across country. 

 It is a sport for rich and poor, for tender 

 youth and old age, and for all those who 

 enjoy the niceties of the huntsman's craft 

 tested at its highest. 



