counsel you to retire somewhat from the crowd, giving place to
those eager men who are breaking the huntsman's heart. When the
hounds have come nearer to their fox, and the pace is again good,
then they will retire and make room for you.

Not behind hounds, but alongside of them, if only you can
achieve such position, it should be your honour and glory to
place yourself; and you should go so far wide of them as in no
way to impede them or disturb them, or even to remind them of
your presence. If thus you live with them, turning as they turn,
but never turning among them, keeping your distance, but losing
no yard, and can do this for seven miles over a grass country in
forty-five minutes, then you can ride to hounds better than
nineteen men out of every twenty that you have seen at the meet,
and will have enjoyed the keenest pleasure that hunting, or
perhaps, I may say, that any other amusement, can give you.