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The real campaign begins in November; and even for those who do not personally attend to the earlier work of the kennel, or look after cub-hunting, which during the last ten days of October is apt to take the shape of genuine hunting, October has charms of its own and peculiar duties. It is the busiest month in the year in regard to horses. Is physic needed?
The months of September and October, the period for cub-hunting, afford capital sport.
Moreover, it is almost an allowed fact that hounds well blooded in the cub-hunting season do not require it to any extent afterwards; and many authorities maintain that a good 'flare up' of triumph and excitement over the mouth of an earth is just as effectual and satisfactory to hounds as an actual worry. "And what do the field think of it? They hate and abominate it, each and every one of them.
But, whether Charles made the opportunities or not which came so ready to his hand, still he found time, amid the pressure of his shooting arrangements and his duties as host, to talk to Ruth. One day there was cub-hunting in the gray of the early morning, to which she and Miss Wyndham went with Charles and others of the party who could bear to get up betimes.
After she has obtained as much practice as possible, on different horses, over various kinds of natural fences, and has shown ability to control her mount at a gallop, and when excited by the presence of other horses galloping in front of him, she should be considered competent to commence her hunting career, and take her place in the field at the beginning of the cub-hunting season.
An ignorant foreign body and, after all, everyone is a foreigner somewhere and ignorant about something once committed the enormity of asking his host, just back from cub-hunting, whether the hedgerows, when he went out of a morning, were not quite lovely with those dewy cobwebs which the French call Veils of the Virgin.
But once the Squire had come in to her very early one October morning when he was going cub-hunting and found her reading The Divine Comedy with a translation and an Italian dictionary and grammar. He had talked of it downstairs as a good joke: "Mother reading Dante what?" and she had put away those books.
"Seven!" said the energetic landlord; "seven, including cub-hunting, and killed four! If you kill four foxes out of an eighty-acre wood, and have two litters at the end of the season, I don't think you have much to complain of." "If they all did as well as Lord Rufford, you'd have more foxes than you'd know what to do with," said the doctor.
Father and son had in turn put their horses out to grass in April, had begun to train them again in August, had boasted at the Dublin horse-show of having been out cub-hunting, had ridden and drunk hard from the age of twenty to seventy.
There was the cub-hunting to be looked after, which made his presence at Runnymede necessary, and then that "pig-headed fellow, Silverbridge" would not have the horses trained anywhere but at Newmarket. How was he to be in two places at once?
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