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give you my ideas as to what sort of man a good 

 Hon. See. should be. And I do so the more readily 

 knowing how lacking I was in most of the qualities 

 I recommend. 



First and foremost our good Hon. Sec. must be a 

 man of enthusiasm. He must be determined to 

 make his hunt a success : a dilettante, bored man 

 will never succeed. With energy and drive he 

 must have plenty of tact ; yet he should be capable 

 on occasion, which should never arise, of shrewdly 

 biting any one, big or small. If he is weak he will 

 fail. He should have a gift for the hunting of pig 

 and an intimate knowledge of their ways. If he 

 is a good performer himself his word will carry 

 the more weight. He must know the language 

 well enough to talk with the villagers and the 

 coolies on the line, and to take no shame when he 

 meets a native gentleman on equal terms. 



I assume now that you, reader, have taken over 

 a country, and I venture to offer you a few words 

 of advice. I have no wish to be didactic. I cannot 

 in every other line say " my advice is " do this or 

 that. Please assume this phrase as written. 



I will divide what I have to say under the different 

 headings of : 



(1) Committees and members of the hunt. 



(2) Preservation of ground and pig. 



(3) Hunting the country. 



(4) Interior economy. 



Committees and Members of the Hunt 



Tent Clubs vary : some have a committee, others 

 do not. 



To my mind committees are an invention of the 



