CHAPTER I 



HUNTSMAN 



. . . by chase our forefathers earn'd their food. 

 Toil strung their nerves and purified their blood. 



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able, and, as the 

 huntsman should al- 

 ways be at the head, 

 it is right to com- 

 mence these observa- 

 tions with him ; for 

 on him not only does 

 the sport in general 

 depend, but the cheer 

 of a good one when 

 he fii'st finds his fox, creates that indescribable 

 sensation which nothing else has ever been knoAvn 

 to do. Who can hear the cheer of the huntsman, 

 added to the cry of the hounds and the blowing of 



