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body of excited schoolboys on the backs of 

 hounds, in the most thoughtless and unsports- 

 manlike manner. Now, gentleman and ladies, 

 I am more concerned for the limb and safety of 

 a Hunt servant, and the life of a foxhound, than 

 I am for the life of a fox, and I am determined 

 to put a stop to this sort of wild work for the 

 future. I well know what is the cause of it all, 

 and I understand that emulation is at the bottom 

 of the mischief, for I have been young myself, 

 and over-ridden hounds, I dare say ; but I sa}^ 

 advisedly, I have never done so when warned b}^ 

 the Master to stop and to give hounds room. I 

 am sorry to say I do not observe that my 

 warning words are fairly listened to, or that 

 when I request the field to hold hard they take 

 any notice. Only the other day, I saw some one 

 jump so close to a Hunt servant, that if the 

 former had fallen a serious accident would have 

 taken place. I also saw a hound jumped on, 

 and the Huntsman unduly pressed when he was 

 making a cast. I have no wish to know who 

 jumped on the hound, as I have no desire to 

 identify the striker with the striken, nor is it 



