A May Fox 



at a very great many of them the hunting men 

 give special prizes for the farmers of the dis- 

 trict. The hunting man should always make a 

 point of going to these shows and of taking an 

 interest in the special prizes given by the Hunt. 

 He will be wise, however, if he refrains from 

 judging on these conditions, however good a 

 judge he may be. It is always better for the 

 judge to come from a distance ; his mistakes 

 are not so freely criticised and the decisions 

 don't do harm to the Hunt. 



One instance of the mischief which accrued 

 from a member of a Hunt judging at a certain 

 show at which that Hunt gave some special 

 prizes, is worth relating. There was an 

 exhibitor there who had an overweening sense 

 of the quality and perfections of a young horse 

 he was showing. He was really a very average 

 sort of animal indeed, which, by the way, is by 

 no means uncommon when an inexperienced 

 man holds such a high opinion of a horse's 

 merits. The judge placed him fourth, which 

 was quite as high as he deserved. But his 

 owner thought he should have won, and told the 



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