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revised the greater portion of the proof. I have 

 done my best with the remainder, but there was no 

 time to submit the sheets, as I should have pre- 

 ferred, to some one better informed than myself on 

 the technical details of the sport. I am only anxious 

 that the author should be held blameless. In his 

 chapters he embodied a number of interesting 

 opinions contributed by Masters and others. 



In addition, my friend Lt.-Col. G. C. Ricardo 

 has written, out of the fulness of his knowledge of 

 Craven expenditure over a period of years, an 

 exhaustive chapter on the financial side of Master- 

 ship, no unimportant aspect to the newcomer in a 

 strange country; while Mr. Arthur Heinemann, one 

 of the most enthusiastic and most successful of 

 living otter-hunters, has written on that sport in 

 Essex and Devon, in both of which countries he 

 has mastered important packs. It will perhaps be 

 noticed that Masters of Harriers find no place in 

 this book, but it was thought that, for one Library 

 at any rate, Mr. Bryden had said all that there was 

 to be said on the subject in his own volume on 

 the sport, and any further notes must have been 

 in the nature of repetition. 



It remains only to thank Lord Ribblesdale, Mrs. 

 Ricardo and others who have so kindly helped with 

 both photographs and information, without which 

 generous assistance, indeed, the volume could hardly 

 have been produced. 



F. G. A. 



