The Hunting Year 



young Dexters and Warwicks have done. And 

 when about noon you arrive home, you find you 

 have been some eight or nine hours in the 

 saddle, that you have seen some good hound 

 work, have learnt something about hunting, 

 and done much to make your horse and your- 

 self fit. 



And if you are one of the right sort, you will 

 so order your horse's work as to ensure your 

 hunting the next time hounds are out, before 

 you enter the house to discuss that most enjoy- 

 able of meals, call it breakfast or luncheon or 

 what you will, that is earned by a good morn- 

 ing's work in the saddle. 



This will not end your experiences of the 

 opening of the cub-hunting season. In the club, 

 or in the street, or somewhere you are sure to 

 meet with the " ignorant person " * who will tell 



* I once heard a man, who, by the way, had 

 been pressing hounds unduly, criticise them pretty 

 freely. The master rode up to him and said : " I 

 don't know who you are, sir, nor where you come 

 from; and I don't want to know. But " — and then 

 came a long pause — " you are an exceedingly 

 ignorant person." 



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