Hounds
he will need to approach the owners and occupiers of land for their leave.
Most of these will welcome him, since the damage done to fences and crops should be infinitesimal, and they can enjoy at no expense an hour or two of exhilarating sport brought to their own doors. The presence of mounted followers at meets of beagles and basset hounds must be rigorously prohibited, and even landowners and occupiers on their own property should be dissuaded from riding. Where one man rides, others are sure to follow suit, with the two-fold result that damage is done, and that hounds are insensibly pressed forward beyond control of their huntsman, and so eventually spoiled for their proper business. It was at one time advocated that one hunt official should be mounted, with the idea that he could get forward quickly to stop hounds-light velvet hunting-caps, white stocks,