Advice on Fox-Hunting
By Henry Verney
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In response to a suggestion that some of my father’s writings upon Fox-hunting should be collected and published in a separate volume, I have chosen the three papers contained in this book.
His claim to be heard rests upon accomplishments still fresh in the annals of the chase; it may, however, be of interest to recall that he became Master of the Warwickshire Hounds in 1876, availing himself of the services of a professional huntsman until 1881, when he commenced to carry the horn himself, and continued to do so till ill health caused his retirement in the autumn of 1898.
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ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING
ADVICE ON
FOX-HUNTING
Henry XVIII th Baron Willoughby de Broke
ADVICE ON
FOX-HUNTING
BY
HENRY XVIII BARON
WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE
WITH PREFACE BY HIS SON
RICHARD GREVILLE
JOHN AND EDWARD BUMPUS LTD.
350 OXFORD STREET, LONDON, W.
1906
PREFACE
In response to a suggestion that some of my father’s writings upon Fox-hunting should be collected and published in a separate volume, I have chosen the three papers contained in this book.
His claim to be heard rests upon accomplishments still fresh in the annals of the chase; it may, however, be of interest to recall that he became Master of the Warwickshire Hounds in 1876, availing himself of the services of a professional huntsman until 1881, when he commenced to carry the horn himself, and continued to do so till ill health caused his retirement in the autumn of 1898.
Willoughby de Broke.
Kineton, Warwick.
CONTENTS
I
TO MASTERS OF HOUNDS
Advice on Fox-Hunting
I. TO MASTERS OF HOUNDS
The first thing to be done on taking a country is to get the land and covert owners on your side. Write to all of them asking leave to draw their coverts, and express a hope that they will extend the same kindness in the preservation of foxes to you as they have always done to your predecessors.
I would advise as much compliance with the wishes of game preservers as is consistent with hunting the country fairly. But there is one thing I could never find it in my heart to do, which is, to stop the hounds when running hard for a game-preserver’s covert. If you are Master of a pack which belongs to the country, I say you have no right to spoil the hounds belonging to the county gentlemen by disappointing them in this way. No; by all means steer clear of the shooting-parties, and meet the shooter’s wishes as much as you can, but by no means, and for no man, stop your hounds when running.
I should never advise anyone to take a country in which there is an old-established huntsman, a favourite with everyone, and one whom it would be something like high treason on your part to dismiss. He will be master, not you. You will simply be a paying machine to settle all the bills and mount him, and he will constantly be grumbling about his horses, and perhaps will even give vent to his feelings in his speech at your puppy-show