The noble science : a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club . CHAPTER II. Keen on the scent At fault none losing heart!—but all at work !None leaving his task to another!—answeringThe watchful huntsmans caution, check, or cheer,As steed his riders i-ein. Away they go !How close they keep together ! What a pack !Nor turn nor ditch nor stream divides them—asThey moved with one intelligence, act, will! Love Chase. Management of Hounds—Doing the thing as it should be done—Knowledgeof Country ess
The noble science : a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club . CHAPTER II. Keen on the scent At fault none losing heart!—but all at work !None leaving his task to another!—answeringThe watchful huntsmans caution, check, or cheer,As steed his riders i-ein. Away they go !How close they keep together ! What a pack !Nor turn nor ditch nor stream divides them—asThey moved with one intelligence, act, will! Love Chase. Management of Hounds—Doing the thing as it should be done—Knowledgeof Country essential in the Master and Huntsmen—Compared with anArmy — Business of Hunting—Differences in Country — Leicestershireand Hampshire—Necessity of Hounds being qualified for their particularCountry—Mr, Smith and the Hambledon. That whatever is worth dohig at all, is worthdoing well, is one of those maxims which may befearlessly asserted, without risk of controversy ; and tono undertaking is it more applicable than to the manage- THE NOBLE SCIENCE. ^ ment of a pack of foxhounds. To do the thing well,and as it should be done, ought to be the
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