H U i: T I i: G TALK. 



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I have lived my life - I am nearly done, 

 I have played the game all round; 



But 1 freely adnit that the "best of my fun 

 I owe it to horse and hound. 



[YTE -MELVILLE. 



The future cutlool: for hunting is not very clear, 

 and we seem to he faced with thia proposition - that 

 many, proh ost, subscribers will be less well 

 off than in pre-war days (v/ar profiteers have not, 

 as a rule, been hunting men), that there may be fewer 

 of them, and that as the cost cf hunting a country 

 will be greater, those who jio hunt will have to 

 subscribe on a higher scale. 



Jorrocks, as usual, was quite to the point in 

 one of his "lectors 11 when he said: "The cost of 

 hunting, my beloved 'earers, like all other things, 

 depends a 'most entirely on ' ow you go about it. 

 The only really indispensable outlay is the sub- 

 scription to the ' ounds, which ought always to be 

 paid punctual in adwance." 



e cannot economise in our hunt subscriptions, 

 that seems quite certain, so we must endeavour to do 

 so in our personal hunting expenditure. 



And there I come to the chief object of this 

 little book, which is written with the idea of giving 

 a few hints to keen lads as to picking up cheap 

 horses, turning them into hunters, the m« cf 

 four-year-olds, and the riding of them, when made, 

 up to hounds. 



As a young man I suffered from a painfully 

 small income, but I never let it interfere with 



