Letters to the Editor
FOX-HUNTING
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SrR,—I have read with great interest the correspondence under the above heading in your last issue and am glad to notice your opening remarks with reference to the practice of "the digging out of a fox which has gone to ground."
My Society has written both this year and last to all Masters of Hunts a special letter, drawing attention to the terrifying experience which the fox undergoes in such circumstances and expressing the hope that such features should be avoided. This letter has also been sent to many papers all over the country, and I am glad to say that I have had many sym- pathetic replies from Masters, so that we can, feel assured, at all events, since the • cruelty entailed is becoming more generally known, there is a wider desire to avoid it and that force of example will make the ,,digging out of foxes before long an extinct custom.—I am, Sir, &c., (Captain) E. G. FAIRHOLME,
Chief Secretary.
R.S.P.C.A., 105 jermyn Street, London, S.W.1.
[We are glad to know that the R.S.P.C.A. has taken up this subject, and we believe they will have support from many M.F.H.'s. Followers of hounds cordially dislike the practice.— En. Spectator.]
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