The Hunting Year 



— even a Keepers' dinner. So " Auld Lang 

 Syne " is sung in divers keys and tunes, and the 

 company separates — each going home with the 

 feeling that he has done something for the cause 

 of fox-hunting ; that he is one of the many links 

 which go to the making up of a somewhat 

 mighty chain. 



And so the Hunting Year comes to an end. 

 Month after month brings its allotted task to 

 the hunt servants — month after month brings a 

 fresh interest to the true sportsman. And as 

 we get older there are memories of the past, 

 as well as hopes for the future, to occupy our 

 minds. And these memories of the past have 

 their influence on the future, and that influence 

 not a small one. The glorious traditions which 

 have been handed down from our hunting 

 ancestors are the foundations on which fox- 

 hunting rests, and so long as these traditions 

 of mutual forbearance and courtesy and good 

 fellowship are acted up to, so long shall fox- 

 hunting remain the great winter sport of a great 

 people. 



FINIS 



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