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1. Utmost civility and courtesy to farmers are particularly enjoined upon 

 all occasions. 



2. Horses and all their requirements for food should be bought from the 

 farmers whenever practicable, instead of from the dealers, even if at a higher 

 price. 



3. Exceptional damage done while hunting, no matter how unintentional, 

 or assistance rendered by the farming or labouring class, should hQ promptly 

 and liberally p>aidfor. 



4. Do not ride over new grass, or seeds, or jump fences unnecessarily. 

 Headlands are alwaj's the soundest going, and generally nearest the line of 

 the fox, while the corners of the fields have often the easiest fencing, except 

 where there happens to be a cattle pond. 



0. Gentlemen are requested to come out in scarlet or black coats, ^^dth 

 oi-thodox breeches and top-boots, and not in drab coats, breeches and 

 leggings. The former is the uniform of a foxhunter, and what has materially 

 aided in making the pursuit the most popular of all British sports, while the 

 substitution of the latter is certain to injure it. 



6. INIeets are arranged by the Master for the general convenience of the 

 members and the hunting of the country ; it is therefore expected that the 

 meets will be the rendezvous, and that no one, for his own individual con- 

 venience, will go to coverts which are likely to be drawn first. Such a 

 practice attracts foot -people, creates noise, and results in foxes being 

 disturbed, whereby good runs are often lost. If it be persisted in, the Master 

 will draw elsewhere when he finds it has taken place. 



7. There is ample time for gossiping on the road to and from huuLing, at 

 the meet, and going from covert to covert, but directly the hounds approach 

 a covert, and until the run is over, nothing should occupy a sportsman's 

 attention but the sport in which he is engaged, and that generally requires 

 all his " doing" and never requires his talking. 



8. While the covert is being drawn the field should stay together, in what- 

 ever position pointed out b}^ the Master, and should avoid moving about, as 

 well as talking. 



9. When a fox goes away, do not make the least noise till he has gone so 

 far as you can in the time " count twenty " (as Mr. Jorrocks tells us). Then 

 gallop to where he has broken, and give a loud, clear "Gone away." This 

 instruction is particularly for young foxhunters (though many an old one 

 transgresses on such occasions), for they imagine that whenever they see a 

 fox they should shout ; just as the young Irishman of fifty years ago, going 

 to his first fair, following his father's advice, should, wherever he saw a 

 head, hit it ! A fox is essentially a nervous, stealthy, crafty animal, and 

 likes to get awaj^ unknown and unseen, and if he thinks he has done so he 

 will gain courage and go away ; but if he knows he i3 seen, he loses heart, 

 and in all probability turns back to covert, and the run is spoiled. 



10. Ajyrojws to the last paragraph, if you happen to be close to where a 

 fox is breaking covert or crossing a ride in covert, do not stir a muscle of 

 your body ; and if you are to leeward of him, ten to one he will not mind 

 you if you are not unduly exposed lo view, or, if he thinks you do not see 

 him, he will go his way ; but the least motion will attract his keen and 

 always ready eye, or, if you are to windward of him, his equally sensitive 

 nose will betray your presence, and back he goes. 



