April Glories 



in a country, it is desirable that they should be 

 well hunted in that month. 



I think every hunting man should endeavour 

 for once at least to have an April's hunting on 

 the moors: for I am quite certain that no one 

 can have a full knowledge of the sport until he 

 has seen hounds run over a moor with a burn- 

 ing scent. It has been my luck to see many 

 a brilliant run on the moors, and in more 

 countries than either one or two, and I look 

 back upon them as amongst my happiest hunt- 

 ing experiences. 



To a man who loves to see hounds work and 

 run, and whose appreciation of the sport is not 

 confined to the riding over grass fields and 

 jumping fences, all hunting on the moors is 

 good, but in the autumn and mid-winter there 

 are many drawbacks. One is that the bogs 

 are then nearly impassable — and that under any 

 circumstances, even the most favourable, you 

 constantly find that you have to go a long way 

 round, and so lose sight of hounds for a time. 

 It is not a particularly cheering sight to see the 

 sterns of hounds disappearing and going away 



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