TO THE READER 



To us modern Americans of little erudition in 

 the niceties of the chase, it is astonishing in reading 

 the CYNEGETICOS or Essays on Sport, written by 

 Xenophon — 430 years before the birth of Christ, to 

 find the accurate knowledge that great man had of 

 hunting, and to observe one of the finest writers, the 

 bravest soldiers, the ablest politicians, the wisest 

 philosophers and the most virtuous citizens of the 

 world's history so intimately acquainted with all the 

 tricks and the difficulties of hunting. 



Virgil appeals to the huntsman in his Georgics, 



"En age, segnes, 

 Rumpe moras; vocat ingenti clamore Cithaeron, 

 Taj'getique canes, domitrixque Epidaurus equorum, 

 Et vox assensu nemorum ingeminata remugit." 



while in 1735 Somerville fires the imagination with 

 his immortal poem, "The Chase." 



"While crowded theatres, too fondly proud 

 Of their exotic minstrels, and shrill pipes. 

 The price of manhood, hail thee with a song 

 And airs soft warbling: my hoarse sounding horn 

 Invites thee to the chase, the sport of kings; 

 Image of war, without its guilt 



"Where are their sorrows, disappointments, wrongs 

 Vexations, sickness, cares? All, are gone, 

 And with the panting winds lag far behind." 



This Brochure contains opinions of the greatest 

 authorities on organized foxhunting and especially 

 those of value in America. 



Nothing is so detrimental to the noble sport as 

 disputes between Masters or annoyance to land- 

 owners and others through carelessness or ignor- 

 ance on the part of the field. 



In the hope that public opinion may be the more 

 readily crystalized, these pages have been compiled. 



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