Fox-hunting 43 



side of the main road from London to Col- 

 chester. Mr. Ashton, in his one season's 

 Mastership (1894-5), deserves the thanks of 

 followers of the pack for the great improve- 

 ment he effected in it ; but his constant pre- 

 ference of the fortiter in re to the suaviter 

 in modo in dealing with the conduct of affairs 

 in the field was hardly calculated to make 

 him popular, and he is now replaced by 

 Colonel Hornby, who gives up the Devon 

 and Somerset in order to take over this pack, 

 which obtains in him such a Master as it has 

 not known for some time past. Although, 

 at the time of w^riting, he has not yet been 

 seen in pink over the ditches, his conduct 

 of the famous west-country hounds puts it 

 beyond all doubt that he will be an unequi- 

 vocal success in his new position. Not only 

 the gallant Colonel himself, but five of his 

 children go, and go well, to hounds. 



Talking of keeping a "field" in order, I 

 always think that no man in the w^orld ever 

 fathomed the great mystery better than Lord 

 Penrhyn. One never saw any unruliness in 



