40 In Scarlet and Silk 



A word as to over - riding ; every year 

 seems to make things worse in tliis respect. 

 How can men tear riojht alonsf when hounds 

 are at fault, and do, in thirty seconds, such 

 harm as means diminished or total lack of 

 sport for the rest of the day ? It is simply 

 diso-ustino^ to see the extent to which this 

 is carried. And when the offenders are re- 

 proved, we are treated, forsooth ! to a lot of 

 bunkum about their "coming out to please 

 themselves ! " The fact that they spoil every 

 one else's fun of course goes for nothing 

 with this class of cock -tail "sportsman." 

 Unfortunately, many of the culprits are big 

 subscribers, and the Master dare not give 

 utterance to the thoughts that must neces- 

 sarily be uppermost in his mind. Apropos 

 of this, a well-known M. F. H., who had 

 been sorely tried in this respect, caught his 

 second whipper-in in a slight transgression 

 of the same nature, and roundly swore at 

 him before the whole field, winding up with, 

 " At all events, I may d — n you!" 



