(^Anthony Trollope 



the charm that they find in the service of the ruHng 

 passion. 



Anthony Trollope hunted in Essex among other countries. 

 If he had lived long enough to see James Bailey hunting 

 Hounds we should undoubtedly have said that Bailey was 

 the prototype of Tony Tuppett. Here you have a faithful 

 portrait, not a caricature, of the long -service provincial 

 huntsman, not so lean or so brilliant as a Tom Firr, but one 

 who hammers away at his Foxes, is not above saving a fall 

 by * going round by Shuffler's Bottom,' and is an institution 

 popular with every one. Then we have a gallery containing 

 types of the men who are the backbone of Fox-hunting and 

 of much else besides, many of them having a hereditary 

 interest in the welfare of their country and the Sport of their 

 Ancestors. Mr. Runciman, the landlord of * The Bush ' at 

 Dillsborough ; Ned Botsey, the local brewer ; Harry Stub- 

 bings, who let out hunters and rode steeplechases ; and 

 last but not least, * Larry ' Twentyman, the gallant yeoman, 

 who had inherited from his forefathers three hundred acres 

 of land, and hunted in a red coat. It is to be expected that 

 the new yeoman class now created by the tenants who have 

 purchased their holdings will furnish many Twentymans 

 in the future. They are the best of friends to Fox-hunting, 

 and are a class more essentially English than any other that 

 the British Isles can produce. So long as they flourish. 

 Fox-hunting is safe. Closely linked to them are the pro- 

 fessional men in the country towns. It will be bad policy 

 if the high tariff that Hunt Committees are now charging is 



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