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of so many brace of foxes by tlie end of the 

 season, they take the opportunity of swelling their 

 list of slain by snapping up cubs, when there can 

 be no merit in killing them. 



An old huntsman, whose name does not at this 

 moment occur to us, was once twitted by a junior 

 holding a similar appointment, for the paucity of 

 his number booked. His reply is deserving the 

 attention of huntsmen in the present day : 



" I never counts 'em whilst they sucks." 



Our sporting papers are doing not only little 

 service, but much mischief to the cause, by pub- 

 lishing any amount of foxes killed before the 1st 

 of November ; up to that time they ought, if there 

 must be such notice taken of them, to be entered 

 by their proper name, " cubs," and not entered 

 on the list as foxes. "Poor is the triumph o'er 

 the timid hare/' and poorer still the triumph over 

 a litter of cubs, barred out from their home, and 

 murdered by the sudden onslaught of their ene- 

 mies, biped as well as quadruped, with screams 

 and yells, and the thundering roar of the pack in 

 their rear, enough to frighten them out of their 

 senses. 



The first day of November is the first recognized 

 meeting of foxhunters for the dispatch of regular 

 business the 1st of September for partridge 

 shooting the 1st of October for the slaughtering 

 of pheasants ; we say slaughter of pheasants, 

 because they are driven up in a corner, like cattle 

 in South America, to be killed in a wholesale 

 manner. To shoot game before these legalized 



