166 THE FARMERS NEAR KENILWOKTH. 



having almost an entire monopoly in that description 

 of business. 



To give general satisfaction to all classes, who may 

 be interested in the operations of a hunting establish- 

 ment, will, I fear, be found a task too difficult for 

 any one, however indefatigable and courteous he may 

 be, to accomplish. Each side of the country ought to be 

 hunted fairly, the bad with the good; and this system, 

 when impartially pursued, will be found more likely 

 to produce a continuance of sport, than perpetually 

 relying on the smaller covers, merely because they 

 are situated in the open. When the fixtures are made 

 out for advertisement, care should be taken not to hunt 

 any favourite covers on that side of the country Avhen 

 it is the market-day of the neighbourhood; it causes a 

 great disappointment to decidedly one of the most 

 respectable body of men in the British community, — 

 namely, the yeomen and farmers; and upon whose 

 good will the preservation of the foxes, and a kindly 

 feeling towards the numerous gentlemen who come 

 out, more materially depends than is very often consi- 

 dered. I remember, some years ago, complaining to a 

 farmer who was a good sportsman, and who resided 

 near the celebrated Kenilworth chase, of the scarcity 

 of foxes in his neighbourhood, a large woodland having 

 been drawn blank on the previous day. His answer 

 was, that his neighbours having been deprived of 

 the pleasure of hunting, by the hounds being sent to 

 that side on the Friday, when they all wished to go 

 to Coventry Market, had determined to have a grand 

 battue on every Thursday, it being more likely to 

 have sport on that day, as the woods would have 

 had six days' rest. If we were to give too ready 



