EVERLASTING QUESTION 105 



constant friction seems almost inevitable, 

 which may be magnified into a serious 

 quarrel or reduced to a comparative trifle, 

 according to the amount of tact with 

 which those in authority are blest. 



It is no easy matter to voice the 

 opinions of others, yet something of what 

 the fox-hunter thinks must find place 

 in these pages, if any appearance of 

 impartiality is to be preserved. To an 

 outside observer the creed of the hunting 

 community would seem to run thus : 



Fox-hunting has the right to be 

 supreme among the field sports in this 

 country, a proposition which no one 

 with any sense of the fitness of things 

 could honestly deny. Hallowed by every 

 tradition that sportsmen hold dear, inti- 

 mately bound up for generations with 

 the best traits of our national character, 

 exercising as marked an influence for 

 good on our race of men as on our breed 

 of horses, an integral part of our country 

 life, the finest training for our soldiers as 

 the finest sport for its own sake in the 



