Buy your forage, and as many of your hunters as you can, from the farmers in the Hunt, and never use moss litter or any other substitute for straw.
II
TO HUNTSMEN
II. TO HUNTSMEN
Stay at home and look after your hounds. Remember Garge Riddel:
“Let fools go travel far and nigh,
We bides at home, my dog and I.”
So stay at home and look after your dogs summer and winter, and do not go gadding about all the puppy shows in the kingdom. At your own puppy show, if your master is foolish enough to allow your health to be drunk, simply acknowledge the compliment, and do not follow the present practice of huntsmen in making what you doubtless think is a clever and facetious speech.