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CHAPTER XVIII. 

 WALKING FOXHOUND PUPPIES. 



I BELIEVE I am correct in stating that no woman 

 who has ever hunted, professes any other feeHng 

 than that of ardent admiration for the hounds which 

 provide her with sport ; but I would like to see this 

 admiration take, among hunting women, the more prac- 

 tical form of walking hunt puppies, in whose future 

 well-being they should have a keen personal interest. 

 There are two maiden ladies in Ireland, who, although 

 they have never hunted, and are long past the age 

 at which they are likely to do so, always, from sheer 

 love of sport, walk a couple of foxhound puppies 

 for their district hunt. We want, I think, more of 

 this sporting Irish feeling among our sex, for I am 

 sure that apart from all other considerations, a 

 hunting woman would find more to interest her in 

 the rearing and training of a foxhound puppy, 

 whose career she could literally follow, than in 

 spending money and time in clothing and nursing 

 a useless pug or toy terrier. There is no more 

 intelligent and charming companion for a woman 



