APRIL GLORIES 



" Well apparell'd April on the heel 

 Of limping winter treads." 



— " Romeo and Juliet." 

 " The uncertain glory of an April day." 



— "Two Gentlemen of Verona." 

 " Often men would say 

 That horse his mettle from his rider takes." 



— "The Lover's Complaint." 



Nowadays there are few countries in which 

 the ominous words, " To finish the season," do 

 not appear at the end of one of the fixtures 

 early in April. For many reasons, it is in- 

 expedient to continue hunting so late as was 

 the custom in the early part of the nineteenth 

 century. Improved agriculture has brought 

 the seasons of field-work forward; and for the 

 same reason that it is now possible to com- 

 mence cub-hunting much earlier than used to 

 be the case, so must the hunting season come 

 to a close sooner than it was wont to do in 



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