CONTENTS. ix 



labour of cub-hunting — Pheasant-preserves prejudicial to sport — System of 

 hunting altered — Old Tom Rose — Jem Butler — How to kill a cub handsomely 

 — Blood of great consequence — Plenty qf exercise requisite — A dog killed by 

 Lord Middleton's hounds — The fox in the chimney — Mr. Stubbs — Anecdote of 

 Jack Shirley — Ditto of a hound suckling cubs — Sir Thomas Mostyn and the 

 Oxonians— Extraordinary run in cub -hunting.— Page 96 to 122. 



CHAP. VI. 



Making the most of a rough country — Various covers described — Gorse covers in 

 Northamptonshire — Artificial covers — Sowing — Cutting and burning — Artificial 

 earths — Fox-catchers — Badgers — Woodland foxes stout — Small covers preju- 

 dicial to hounds during cub-hunting — Large holding covers good — Mr. Assheton 

 Smith's plan in the Collinbourne woods — Earth-stopping — Hounds should run 

 together — Blood makes wild hounds more riotous at the time — Mr. King's 

 bitches in Hampshire — Sir Bellingham Graham's opinion — How to form a pack 

 — Duties of a whipper-in — Anecdote of Dick Foster and Shayer at Mr. Villebois' 

 kennel — A drunken whipper-in — The Duke of Grafton's rules for a whipper-in 

 — Accidents to men in kennels — A whipper-in with a cork leg — Jack Stevens 

 an excellent whipper-in — Tom Ball — What a huntsman ought to be — Will Long 

 — The old school and the modern — A Frenchman's idea of what a huntsman 

 should be — Epitaph to old Tom Johnson — Food of wild animals — Advice in 

 hunting a pack of hounds — Drawing — Finding — A curious kennel for foxes 

 near Beverley — Habits of foxes in autumn — Advice in hunting hounds con- 

 tinued — When to cheer and when to be silent — Working by signs— Checking — 

 Blood and good weather desirable — Will Todd's opinion of a fine morning — 

 Hounds beat by their foxes at the point of death — William Shaw's disappoint- 

 ment — Dick Knight whips the fox out of the kennel and gets beat — The fox 

 and " many friends" — Curious anecdote of a badger — Accidents to hounds — 

 Mr. Hodgson's hounds falhng down Speeton cliffs — On horsing the men — Job- 

 bing hunters from Mr. Tilbury — Hunting a country fairly — The farmers at 

 Kenilworth — Anecdote of Mr. Corbet — Hunting in the snow — Notice of Will 

 Neverd's death — Remarks on scent — Holderness a good scenting country — 

 Anecdote of old Will Carter — Many hares stain the ground like sheep — On 

 travelling hounds — Long distances to cover and home — A van occasionally used 

 — Killing a May fox — Late hunting prejudicial to sport — The beauty of the 

 Pytchley woodlands — The marten cat — Extraordinary number of foxes killed 

 in one day by the Duke of Rutland's hounds — Cubs, and the preservation of 

 foxes — Anecdote of Lord Middleton and a bag fox — Fox-mobbing in the War- 

 wickshire woodlands — Fox-stealers and " Hack mail" — Old Sharp the earth- 

 stopper at Mickleton — Description of a good run in Warwickshire — Ditto in 

 Leicestershire— End of the Hunting season — Conclusion. — Page 123 to 172. 



