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we shall become like one of the flock of sheep that 

 hunting-fields so much resemble. Thus, our minds 

 being vacant, as far as regards the thing we have 

 come out, and gone to considerable trouble and ex- 

 pense, to do, we shall be ready to receive any 

 impression, and we shall helplessly join that mad, 

 and, as far as most of us are concerned, blind, rush, 

 which will take place when some one calls out, " By 

 Jove ! they're gone away," when a pink coat is seen 

 disappearing round a distant corner at a gallop, or 

 when a boy scaring rooks in a field hard by gives 

 vent to an unusually loud " Cow- wow ! " 



Will such a state of mind give us any satisfaction 

 in this part of the Image, or will it favour the 

 learninor of lessons for the Real ? 



Certainly not. Therefore, let us see that we do 

 not get into it, and if, by request of the Master, or 

 for some other good reason, we do go outside the 

 covert, let us remember the excellent advice given 

 in paragraph 6 of " Some rules of advice as concerns 

 hunting," and " not talk, not laugh, and above all 

 not whistle." We shall then hear if a hound chal- 

 lenges, hear when they turn, and hear when they go 

 away. This is attending to business, " playing the 

 game," in fact — the other is coffee-housing. 



As we mean to go into the covert if we can, let 

 us think what it behoves us to do when there. W^e 

 must keep well behind the Huntsman, say fifty 

 yards ; must stand still when he stands still ; must 

 make way at once for him, and any hounds which 

 may be round his horse, should he turn round and 



