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effective means of protecting game-nests against foxes. 

 But surely it is the duty of the gamekeeper to discover 

 these effective means, of which there are plenty ! 

 Under the headline of " Gamekeepers and Fox-hunt- 

 ing," I made some stringent remarks in the columns of 

 Country Sport on November 8, 1902. On November 29 

 there appeared a reply, presumably written by a game- 

 keeper. I publish this reply zn extenso, in spite of the 

 fact that the writer does not apparently hold that high 

 opinion of me which I hold of myself : 



Gamekeepers and Fox-hunting. 



" Sir, — Under the above heading, your correspon- 

 dent, ' G. F. U.,' in your issue of the 8th inst., makes 

 an attack upon gamekeepers, which seems to have 

 been his sole object in writing the somewhat scurrilous 

 article. Although I do not, and I daresay there are 

 not many sportsmen either who pay much attention 

 to such ' slang ' articles as this appearing in a sporting 

 journal, I do not think they should always pass without 

 a word from the party attacked, and that is my plea 

 for troubling you with these few Hnes. 



" Because there are some valuable sporting papers, 

 such as yours, at all times open to those who may 

 care to give their opinions on subjects which may be 

 of interest to the sporting fraternity, it is no reason 

 why that privilege should be abused for the sake of 

 attacking any class against whom we may have a 

 grudge. 



" Fox-hunting and game-preserving are, to my way of 



