Also recently published by the same Author,
EXTRACTS

FROM THE

DIARY OF A HUNTSMAN.
By T. SMITH, Esa.

LATE MASTER OF THE PYTCHLY HOUNDS.

In 8vo, with Lithographic Illustrations, drawn on Stone by the
Author.

Second and Cheap Edition. Price 10s. 6d.

 

“ Every man, we say it advisedly, whether master of hounds,
one who rides up to them, the huntsman, the whips, nay, the very
earth-stoppers and feeders, all may derive information and in-
struction from this book, which is from no less an authority than
Thomas Smith. Smith, undoubtedly, is a common enough name;
and it so happens that there have been two Thomas Smiths,
whcse names are immortalised as out-and-out fox-hunters, There
was Thomas (Asheton) Smith, who used to hunt the Quorn, and
Thomas Smith—the man with whom we have just now to do—
who was for some years master of the Craven.

“This gentleman has put his admirable instructions—for such
they really are—into the modest form of ‘Extracts from the
Diary of a Huntsman ;’ but with all this modesty there is not a
chapter that may not be well and profitably read. Above all, the
feeling that obviously pervades the work cannot be too strongly
inculeated. The writer is most anxious to restore a love of the
good old sport of fox-hunting, in preference to the absurd modern
fancy for mere hard-riding, in defiance of sport and every thing
else but the personal vanity of a few puppies, who have no brains
to lose even if they should happen to break their heads,”—
Morning Post.

“ This work, which we must premise is invaluable to a sports-
man, has just come under our notice, and realises all we have
heard of its intrinsic worth ; for without the frippery of studied
composition, the author treats his subjects with the hand of a
master, and in a style at once short, sharp, and decisive,”—Bell’s
Life in London.

“ The value of this work must be increased by the author’s
great success in our country. It is full of original matter. The
hunting terms, and a sketch of a cast when hounds are at check,
and also pictures of a fresh and tired fox, &c., are most valuable.”
—Northampton Herald.