20 PINK AND SCARLET 



strange horse, or if you are at all doubtful of your 

 own powers of "remaining" over a fence. 



From harriers we will pass to stag-hounds. Here 

 it is not so easy to advise, and there seems no un- 

 written law on the subject ; of course when hunting 

 the wild stag the pink coat is correct. With the 

 carted deer opinion seems to differ ; some wear the 

 pink or black, some the rat-catcher, some adopt a 

 sort of cross between the two, and wear rat-catcher 

 plus a tall hat, a covert or frock coat, and perhaps 

 white breeches. Some of these mongrel kits, notably 

 the " Hames of Leicester " one,^ look neat and 

 workmanlike. Perhaps the best thing to do is to 

 try and find out if the master or the influential 

 members of the hunt have any feelings on the 

 matter, then comply with these. If they have no 

 wishes wear rat-catcher, keeping the pink for the 

 Image proper, which we will now pass on to. 



It is fitting that the colour to be worn for the 

 campaign with the "himage of war" (Mr. Jorrocks 

 meant /"ar-hunting when he used these words) 

 should be the same as that worn by the bulk of 

 Britain's army. For is not the colour of the pink 

 coat of the chase very nearly allied to that of the 

 scarlet one of war? 



It is argued by some, that it is absurd for a man 

 with one horse to put himself into pink, but this 

 will not hold water ; if the horse is good, the 

 man good, and he subscribes to the hounds, why 



^ So named because it is that adopted by Mr. Hames, the 

 Leicester horse-dealer. 



