The Hunting Year 



Wednesday for Friday or Saturday, because on 

 Friday or Saturday hounds are at a favourite 

 fixture ; and probably when Friday or Saturday 

 comes there is not a scrap of scent, or worse 

 still, there is a frost. Depend upon it that the 

 way to get the most out of a hunting season and 

 to see the best average of sport is to go out 

 whenever your horse is fit, and you have the 

 time. The writer can recall numerous cases of 

 disappointment which have been the result of 

 waiting for a good country, and many instances 

 of hitting the good runs through taking the fix- 

 tures in their turn and as they came. For good 

 runs do not always take place in the best 

 country ; the crowd is against them, for one 

 thing. 



A curious thing in connection with hunting 

 is that one's personal experiences are always 

 somehow running counter to preconceived 

 theories, or to the ordinarily accepted canons of 

 the sport. For instance, if any group of fox- 

 hunters with a wide experience were questioned 

 as to which was the best month for sport, they 

 would be unanimous in saying February. Yet 



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