264 SYSTEM OF KENNEL AND 



M.F.H., when lie generally paid us an animal visit 

 during the hunting season. Even at that time, 

 having reached the age of man, he could still make 

 a good fight across country. 



Since the time of old Meynell, we need scarcely 

 remark that, to meet the spirit of the age, great 

 changes have taken place in that part of Leicester- 

 shire, which at one time he might almost have 

 claimed as his own ; in fact, the country has been 

 divided and parcelled out by the proprietors to suit 

 their convenience. There are, in some foxhunting 

 countries, also some woods called neutral coverts, a 

 so % rt of " no man's land," which two packs claim the 

 right of drawing, and this debatable ground too 

 often gives rise to disputations and disagreements 

 destructive to that harmony which ought to exist 

 between two neighbouring masters of foxhounds. 

 We believe we have already mentioned that no one 

 master has a right to dig a fox out from a stronghold. 

 in another's country, or to send forward a whipper- 

 in to stop the earths there, and the more particular 

 we are in regard to the etiquette observed upon these 

 and other occasions, the more shall we conduce to 

 the interests of the " noble science." 



