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over the Campagna ; another has hunted at 

 Pan ; and some one tells of a remarkable 

 subscription pack that was formed and hunted, 

 after a fashion, in Belgium some years ago. The 

 subscribers of five hundred francs enjoyed the 

 privilege of wearing red coats, carrying horns 

 and blowing them. Subscribers of three hundred 

 francs might wear red facings to green coats, 

 and might -carry horns, but were never to sound 

 them ; while inferior grades of the hunt, who 

 paid less than three hundred, were forbidden to 

 wear either red or green, and were on no account 

 permitted to take with them instruments of 

 music. It was, moreover, enacted that no con- 

 tributor of a small sum was to ride before a 

 contributor of a large sum ; and if the rich 

 sportsman who gave five hundred chose to go 

 slowly, the hunt was seriously delayed. 



The riding men talk chiefly of their horses, 

 and the hunting men of the hounds ; for the 

 same pleasure which the sportsman gains from 

 seeing his dog quartering the field, pointing with 

 infinite patience and steadiness, and obeying with 

 a quickness which is half anticipation, is yielded 

 to the huntsman who carefully observes the 

 intelligence of the hound as he seeks to outwit 

 his natural enemy. To those who have not 

 watched attentively it seems absurd to speak of 



