CONTENTS. XI 



PACE 



should Lave been two buudred years ago. — Gentlemen Huntsmen. — On 

 Handling a Pack of Hounds,— Lifting, Bad.— Blood essential. — Will. 

 Todd's Opinion of a Fine Morning. — Disappointment in Killing Foxes. 

 — Shaw beat by Candle-light. — The Fox and many Friends.— Curious 

 Misfortune with a Badger. — Accidents Happening to Hounds in 

 Cbace.— Mr. Hodgson's Hounds at Speeton Cliffs.— On Horsing the 

 Men. — Anecdote of Mr. Whitworth and Jack Wood. — Mr. Tilbury's 

 System of Letting Hunters. — Hunting a Country Impartially. — The 

 Farmers near Kenilworth, or the "lex tally /tonis."— Anecdote of Mr. 

 Corbett. — Frost and Physicing Hounds.— Hunting in the Snow. — A 

 Run in Berkshire with Mr. Warde's Hounds.— The Pytchley Hounds 

 Hunting in a Deep Snow. — J. Walker and the Fife. — Remarks on Scent. 

 Holderness a Wet Country. — Old Tom Carter and Lord Middleton.— 

 Causes of Scent Failing. — Wild Garlic— Curious Account of Wild- 

 geese on the Yorkshire Wolds. — Travelling Hounds in Caravan. — 

 Feeding on the Road when Returning from a Long Day. — Spring 

 Hunting. — The Pytchley Woodlands. — Marten Cats occasionally 

 found with Hounds. — Foxes not so Destructive as generally Repre- 

 sented. — Contents of a Fox's Kennel.- Trick of a Bagman Discovered. 

 — Account of a Good Run with His Grace of Rutland's Hounds in 1805, 

 — Hunting late prejudicial to Sport. — Conclusion 137 



