56 The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt. 



Miss Cole in a trek across country after hounds calls for more energy than 

 many people care to expend. 



I hope I have previously made sufficient reference to landowners, 

 shooting tenants, and others on whose goodwill hunting so much depends, 

 and in regard to the farmers I would like to express that grateful feeling 

 which is undoubtedly shared by all who have the privilege of riding over 

 their lands. If they should be annoyed at times by people carelessly 

 leaving gates open, or failing to notice the red boards in sown grass, they 

 may be assured it is the fault of some irresponsible individual and not the 

 sporting members of the Hunt. 



A word for the gamekeepers is also due, for they often have arduous 

 duties to perform in the way of closing earths late at night, to say nothing 

 of the care required in keeping a satisfactory stock of game and foxes. 



A better pack of hounds to hunt foxes of the right sort would be hard 

 to find anywhere, for they have been renowned for working qualities from 

 time immemorial. Bone and substance with quality are the chief points, 

 and Jacklin is a firm believer in having his hounds rather big in condition 

 so that he has something to work upon in the course of a season. Any 

 huntsman will admit that it is much easier to take it off than to put it on, 

 and a little fat goes very well with the lean. You can always recognise 

 a fit pack of hounds when you see them coming home at the end of a hard 

 day with their sterns well up. 



In conclusion, I may say I have tried to make this a sporting book 

 throughout, and reference to the various subjects dealt with has been as far 

 as possible confined to their connection with foxhunting. 



