Related article: them ; hounds of the highest ex-
cellence — Mr. Austin Mackenzie's
bitch pack will be taken over by
Mr. Wroughton at the princely
s.um of three thousand guineas —
and an extensive wardrobe for the
men, are luxuries for which, if
demanded, some one must pay,
and that some one need not be, in
fact, should not be, the master of
a subscription Buy Benadryl Online pack.
Meantime, expenses are grow-
ing in other directions. The
increase of shooting tenants render
it more than ever necessary for
hunts to rent coverts in order to
ensure the due preservation of
foxes ; the subdivision of countries
and the consequent increase in
the number of foxes within a given
area means an increase in poultry-
claims, while huge fields inevit-
ably lead to more frequent de-
mands for repairs of damage ;
yet, so far as one can see, claims
in these directions cannot always
be met, nor are these items suffi-
ciently taken into account.
The question of damage, per-
haps, is hardly quite considered
as it should be by subscribers to
hounds. In olden times, when
packs hunted over a wide area,
as did the Berkeley, Badminton,
Lord Yarborough's, Lord Dar-
lington's, the Badsworth and
others, farmers' holdings were
necessarily visited at longer inter-
vals than at present ; but now,
with the old countries cut up, not
only do hounds scour their own
country very frequently, but
farmers holding land at the junc-
tion of two Order Benadryl Online or more hunts come in
for a double visitation, and we
have already seen it stated in
print this season that many coun-
tries are so gapped that it is
possible to ride in a good run with
the country greatly simplified.
Although gaps are made, fences
are not jumped any the more
cleanly for all that, and when Purchase Benadryl Online
hedges become thoroughly broken
down they take years to grow Where Can I Buy Benadryl
again, and pending their recupera-
tion the farmer either mends them
up with wire or unjumpable
timber.
Now the moral, as it appears
to me, will be that while hunts
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will in the future require all the
money they can get, they will
find the outside expenses, so to
speak, grow very largely. The
cry about the old days when
hunting fields were made up ex-
clusively of landowners, farmers
and their friends, is all nonsense.
From the earliest times strangers
flocked into eligible countries in
great numbers ; not, of course, by
train as they do now, but on short
visits, and by long hacking jour-
neys. And how did hunting men
of the old school treat the
farmers Where To Buy Benadryl ? Why, by larking over
their fences when going to covert,
and by having a sort of steeple-
chase home after hunting, things
which would not be tolerated to-
day for an instant. Unless I am
very much mistaken, the time
will come when not only masters,
but members of the several hunts
will have to do Purchase Benadryl with fewer horses.
At no very distant date one will
have to serve for a day's hunting.
I know a hunt in an unfashionable
country which took the field on
four days a week with a stud of
seven horses, excluding the
master's, and he did not himself
hunt the hounds. The use of one
horse instead of two will mean
that days will be Buy Benadryl shorter, and
that consequently a smaller tract
of land will be hunted over, while
the money thus saved will have
to go to the farmer. There are
already plenty of signs of at least
a desire for a move in this direc-
tion, and Major de Freville did
well in emphasising the fact that
sport was none the better because
an establishment is Generic Benadryl over -horsed
and the hunt staff wear leathers.
Between four and five years
ago the financial status of the
Carbery Hounds in Ireland at-
tracted a cettain amount of
attention. The Carbery Hunt
Club held a meeting which was
anything but unanimous on most
points ; but on one matter they
did agree — they thought that a
hundred a year was too much to
pay Mr. Beamish, their master,
for the maintenance of the hounds
for a season. The master, how-
ever, stood out for his hundred,
and reminded his somewhat par-
simonious subscribers that during
the season 1892-3 the subscrip-
tions amounted to ^"47 10s. only.
It is a fact, however, that very
few hunts are doing Cheap Benadryl anything
more than living from hand to
mouth, and I have before me as
I write a pile of reports of hunt
meetings the majority of which
state that there was a deficit of a
greater or less sum, for the
wiping out of which a special
appeal was made. On the other
hand, it would never do for a
hunt to be too rich, as nothing
would be better calculated to
check the flow of subscriptions
than the general knowledge that
there was a big balance at the
bank, and Buy Cheap Benadryl some funded property.
It is only a couple of seasons ago
that Mr. Arthur Wilson, master
of the Holderness Hounds, had
to complain of the falling off of
supplies. He had previously
threatened to resign, but con-
sented to continue in office on
^"2,000 being guaranteed, and as
that sum was promptly paid
matters looked well ; but after
that season arrears again began
to accumulate, and the master
complained once more. It was
stated that the total cost of main*
taining the hunt was ^4,000 per
annum, but that the master was
satisfied if one half of that sum
were paid to him.
Of course, when such a sum as
the above can l>e expended upon
a hunt a good deal of the amount
can go in matters unconnected
with kennel and stable ; but tb"
question of recompense for dam-
age is a growing one. and will
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sooner or later have to be faced
in a manner more Order Benadryl business-like
than has yet been the case, and
for this hunting men will, in a
great measure, have to thank
many of Benadryl Online their own body, many
hunting being the very worst
friends the sport could have. The
old-fashioned farmers are disap-
pearing like the old class of
country squires, and as many of
them cannot, or at least do Benadryl Buy not,
hunt, they do not regard the
sport in the same light as did
their predecessors on the land.
It is only the other day that at
the meeting of some Council or
other some one gave notice of a
motion that the Crown's privilege
of free chase should be revived in
the form of licences to ride over
enclosed land, and that the money