Those who shoot in the wake of hounds are no sportsmen. To state a
case in illustration of this: A sportsman has the shooting of a wood
bounded on one side by another's fields. In days gone by he was glad
to keep a fox for hounds, and gladly he would throw open his wood to
the hunt, in a reasonable way. In the cause of sport, he was content
that his pheasants and hares should be driven out of his wood into his
neighbour's fields and hedgerows. But when he found that his neighbour
was the sort of man to shoot in the wake of hounds, so that the evicted
creatures were given no fair chance to return to their home-wood,
but instead were shot in the afternoon following a morning visit of
hounds--he felt compelled to close his wood to the hunt, with the
natural sequence that he was soon compelled to bar the covert to foxes
also. No shooting days in the wake of hounds should be a golden rule
for all neighbourly neighbours.
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