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to the pencilling on dirty envelopes which was taking 

 place. However, let us cut the cackle and come to the 

 'osses, as my companions did. The huntsman briefly 

 indicated the line which the fox had taken, and gave 

 the names of the prominent members of the Hunt 

 whom he had happened to see in the field. This was 

 sufficient information upon which to write the short 

 accounts of hunting runs which we see in the London 

 daily papers. For the local paper more padding was 

 required, which the huntsman supplied by the inch, 

 according to the wishes of the local editor, expressed 

 to him by the postmaster. Of course I did not learn 

 how the profits were divided in this case. In another 

 instance, one of the whippers-in supplied a London 

 weekly paper with short accounts of runs, and at the 

 end of the season was agreeably surprised to receive a 

 five-pound note from the editor. What would a 

 professional journalist say to such remuneration ? 

 The worst feature in regard to Hunt servants becoming 

 newspaper correspondents is that they are seldom 

 impartial. It must be remembered that there are many 

 so-called hunting-men, who wish to see their names in 

 print, because it is a good advertisement for them, from 

 a business point of view. There is nothing immoral in 

 this wish of Mr. Blank, the gentleman horse-dealer, 

 who hunts in order to sell his horses, and who 

 naturally wants to see their jumping and galloping 

 powers extolled in the local newspaper. Thus, we 

 constantly come across some such sentence as this : 

 " The honours of the run clearly belonged to Mr. 

 Blank, who, mounted on his famous grey mare, was 



