CHAPTER III. 



DUTIES TO THE FIELD. 



The duty of boys and girls towards the Master and. 

 his staff when hunting having been alluded to, 

 mention must now be made of the duty wliich every boy 

 or girl beginner owes to the rest of the field. And first 

 of all it may be pointed out in all seriousness that all 

 observing beginners will quickly find out that many 

 hunting people of long standing are constantly offending 

 in some little matter or other. This may be to some 

 extent confusing, but children must never be carried 

 away by the idea that it is right for them to do any- 

 thing and everything which they see their elders doing. 

 There are, as a matter of fact, some men and women 

 who have hunted for years and years, and yet who will 

 not learn the unwritten laws of the sport, or who, 

 worse still, knowing what may and what may not 

 be done, choose wilfully to do vrhat they know to be 

 wrong. Boys and girls must on no account adopt as 

 their model any particular man or vroman, unless they 

 know for certain that he or she is one whose actions 

 can be confidently copied. There are, it need hardly 

 be said, in most hunting fields certain persons who 

 constantly transgress. Some of these are actuated 



