OF FOX; 



of recreation and amusemen: 



who L aUy nothing to do, ex .haps, 



scribbling over two or three sheets of iiote paper to 



Jticular friends ; and were not foxhunting the 

 fashion, what would become of them? On non- 

 hunting days time may be saved from ennui by a 

 lounge down to the stables after brer. oking 



a cigar whilst looking over the horses, and kicking 

 your heels against the corn -bin whilst watching the 

 operation called dressing. A battue day possibly 

 i >metimes intervene to drown dull care ; but 

 the most thickly stocked preserves cannot afford 

 sport shooting we ought to have said for three days 

 a week throughout the season, like a moderately 

 stocked foxhunting country. A battue day is a 

 grand meet for gods and goddesses ; but, like real 

 . ey are few and far between. Battue- 



juld lose its chief, and we may add only, 



:ion were less than a thousand head of game 

 slaughtered in one day ; and where are the preserves 

 which could afford such blood-shedding three days 

 a week, from the 1st of October to the 1st day of 

 February ? More money would be required to 

 maintain the staff of keepers, watchers, &c., for such 



rtblishment than that for the support of six 

 packs of foxhounds on a moderate scale. Although 

 little can be said against foxhunters, they get pretty 

 well bespattered with foul language as well as with 

 mud in foul weather ; yet selfishness and vain boast- 

 ing cannot very fairly be laid to their charge. A 

 master may feel rather pleased on seeing a good 

 run afforded by his pack noticed in sporting prints, 



