Related article: VOL. Lxxiv. — NO. 489. 26 358 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [NoVEMBEIt So down went his nose as he smeused through the fence. For hunting's a business and not a pretence ; And he flew to the note of his half-brother's dam, And he said, " Are you sure ? " she replied, " Yes, I am." And I hope and believe that next time you will boast Old " Saucy " has spoken, we've got him " on toast." So out flew the note of his musical tongue In the midst of the pack, on the line as they swung, The grandest of chorus that ever was sung, And that litter of cubs it spread terror among. "When " Garnet " was entered, I make it my boast, That morning a brace of cubs gave up the ghost. " Peccavi," they cried, and I'll cry it the same If the family tree of my pack has a stain, In the book they have been and I hope that for aye They'll remain ; and I also believe that Nevirapine Tablets their " cry " "Will be never found wanting, and always their boast. With due deference to ** Borderer," that Reynard's " Buy Nevirapine on toast." Myself I'm a Welshman, and proud of my race So distinguished in politics, war, and the chase, But I love to see hounds go " the deuce of a pace," For I think that a "burst " to a pack's no disgrace. So I'll send to ** the Shires " and breed them with ** bone," And be sorry for sportsmen whose horses get blown. September 29th, 1900. Amateur Huntsman. The Hunting Season^s Arrangements. Another hunting season is upon us, and by the time these lines are read a few packs, especially in Ireland, will have opened the regular season. It is probably safe to say that not for many a year vidll a period of sport be entered upon with more mixed feelings than is the case in con- nection with the now opening season. Faces so well known erstwhile at the covert side will never be seen again, while some of those who have survived the ordeal of Africa will return, or have returned, to England, in a state which will incapacitate them from following hounds for some time. Among others who will be missed is Mr. Flower, the popular secretary of the North Cotswold ; while, as a considerable number of the Yeomanry and mounted volunteers have applied for em- ployment in the police force, whose head is General Baden - Powell, a number of the rank and file of the hunting field will neces- sarily be absent. Those, how- ever, who are back in time will doubtless don their hunting gear with redoubled zest, and appre- ciate to the full that sport which the famous Mr. Jorrocks appraised in comparison with the stern war in which so many hunting men have been engaged. Somehow, probably because creaking doors hang longest on their hinges, staghound establish- I90O.] THE HUNTING SEASON'S ARRANGEMENTS. 359 ments experience but little change from year to year in mastership or in the personnel of the staff. The fulminations of the league who make a dead set at stag- hunting, backed up by the signa- tures of young men and maidens who had never seen a stag- hunt, rolled away like water off a duck's back, and nobody seemed '' one penny the worse." Accordingly we find that for the season very few staghound packs have changed masters. Lord Coventry had an- nounced his intention of giving up the mastership of the buckhounds, owing to the suggestion of his medical adviser ; but it is exceed- ingly satisfactory to hear that he will continue in office for some time longer at least. Lord Coventry, in addition to being one of the most experienced, has been one of the most popular masters of the hunt, and under his wise guidance during his two periods of master- ship, staghunting has been carried on in the very best way possible. Long before the outgoing master was appointed master of the buck- hounds, he was a master of fox- hounds, and came to his post well equipped in knowledge. There is also another change in connection with the pack which deserves passing mention, and that is that John Comins, who has been huntsman since John Harvey departed, is succeeded by Frank Goodall, jun., nephew to the Frank of that family who showed marvellous sport in Ire- land and in Leicestershire under Mr. Tailby, and afterwards went to Ascot. The new huntsman, like his uncle, has had a good experience of Ireland, and was a huntsman when' he had little, or at all, passed the age of twenty- one years. His last English berth was with Sir W. Watkin Wynn, and on leaving Wynnstay he went to Ireland and hunted the Kildare hounds with conspicuous success for some time, and, when he left, he set up in business as an auc- tioneer, which business, we pre- sume, still continues. It is to be hoped, indeed it may be taken for granted, that the new appointment will work successfully, for Frank Goodall is good both in the kennel and in the field, and in spite of an injury to his thigh — something in the nature of rider's strain— he used to go remarkably straight over a country, while he could not only ride a run, but could write as good a description of it as could come from the majority of hunting correspondents. The name of Mr. E. Walter Greene (now Sir E. Walter Greene, Baronet) was for many years very familiar to hunting men as master of the Essex and Suffolk and Croome Foxhounds. He began to hunt the carted deer about ten years ago, and during the period which has elapsed has shown some excellent sport. Great, there- fore, was the regret of the country side when it became known that Sir E. Greene had determined to give up the hounds with which he has so long been identi-