A JUNE FESTIVITY 



" Let us feast him to the height." 



— " Triolus and Cressida." 



"I do feast to-night. 

 My best esteemed acquaintance." 



— " Merchant of Venice." 



Hitherto I have said but little of our friend 

 the keeper, to whom we have been obliged for 

 many a good run during the last season, and 

 many last seasons. I have had much to say 

 about the farmer and the farmer's wife, and of 

 the way in which hunting men should enter into 

 their business and their pleasures, and show an 

 interest in their everyday life, not treating them 

 as mere " incidents," who unfortunately cannot 

 be left out of consideration. And I have inci- 

 dentally shown how, if a man would have the 

 best out of hunting, he should identify himself, 

 as far as in him lies, and as opportunity permits, 



with the everyday life, business and social, of 



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