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The cost of keeping up a pack of hounds is 

 very heavy. The hounds themselves, a well-paid 

 huntsman, two or three whippers-in, two horses 

 a day for each of these attendants (hunting four 

 days a week, this would probably require four 

 horses for each man), and no end of incidental 

 expenses, bring the cost to fully $ 20,000 per 

 annum. This is sometimes paid wholly or in part 

 by subscription and sometimes entirely by the 

 Master of the Hounds. One item of my friend's 

 expenses at Leamington was a subscription of 

 ten guineas each to the Warwickshire, North 

 Warwickshire, Atherstone, and Pytchley hunts. 

 Something of this sort would be necessary if 

 one hunted for any considerable time with any 

 subscription pack, but an occasional visitor is 

 not expected to contribute. 



A stranger participating in the sport need only 

 be guided by common modesty and common- 

 sense. However good a horseman he may be, 

 he cannot make a sensation among the old stagers 

 of the hunting-field. Probably he" will get no 

 commendation of any sort. If he does, it will be 



