THE BARBAKIANS 15 



Wlio when she was good 

 Was very very good, 

 But when she was naughty she was horrid. 



Hunting, however, is simple. All you have to do is to find where 

 hounds meet, pay your cap or subscription, and turn up. If it be 

 fox-hunting you must have a horse, but that, if you can pay for him, 

 Mr. Hopkins will provide over the telephone. It is cheaper if you 

 hunt regularly to bring a horse or horses up from home. I once 

 tried to persuade my father that if he would let me bring the horse 

 I rode at home up for the term, the amount he would save on his 

 keep at home, and what I should save by hacking him out to beagle 

 meets instead of driving, would exactly balance the cost of keeping 

 him ; but he did not see it. Perhaps he thought that with a horse I 

 should not do enough work, and in that case I have no doubt that 

 he was right. But to hunt with beagles is within the reach of such 

 Barbarians as are even poor, five pounds a term being the utmost 

 that can be spent on the actual hunting. And further, except for 

 occasional train meets, the beagler who is industrious can put in a 

 fair morning's work, as the brake seldom starts before 12.15. From 

 1 o'clock to 5 is spent in beagling, and then after a pleasant tea at 

 the inn the brake takes you home to bath and dinner, when if 

 not too sleepy you can resume your work. 



Economy, however, is not the only advantage of beagles over fox- 

 hounds for the young. With the latter an undergraduate can never 

 be more than a private subscribing member, whereas with beagles he 

 may become a whipper-in, if not a Master, and so have a finger in 

 the pie; and an undergraduate of means can have all the interest 

 and invaluable experience of hound management and yet get in a 

 day a week with the Fitzwilliam ; and between the two an observant 

 young man can educate himself for the responsible business of a 

 Master of Foxhounds, and this is as it should be, for an University 

 is, in the language of ancient times, a studium generate, or place where 

 you can learn anything, and therefore as the general includes the 

 particular, a place where you can learn to be a Master of Foxhounds ; 

 and as Cambridge affords, unofficially perhaps and unbeknownst to 

 herself, these educational opportunities, something has been done for 



