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 . ich has had noparallel, either before or since his time, in those parts. This is only one of many instances which I couldquote in support of my doctrine, as to the obviousutility of a due acquaintance with a country, and notless especially with the kind of hound best adapted to 10 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. the soil, and the character of ground over which he isexpected to hold a scent. What I may have to say onthe subject of hounds will a
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 . ich has had noparallel, either before or since his time, in those parts. This is only one of many instances which I couldquote in support of my doctrine, as to the obviousutility of a due acquaintance with a country, and notless especially with the kind of hound best adapted to 10 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. the soil, and the character of ground over which he isexpected to hold a scent. What I may have to say onthe subject of hounds will afford matter for my nextchapter. I have, in this, dwelt more particularly on thesepoints, from a consideration of the changes in administra-tion which have taken place around me since last season,and of more which are likely to occur, in the hope thatshould any one connected with a new management havetaken up this book, he may have arrived thus far beforecasting it aside, and thereby, possibly, may have hisattention more immediately directed to what has, withinmy own knowledge, caused more failures than a hostof all other accountable causes of
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