19 NOVEMBER 1937, Page 6

* * * * A paragraph from one of the

hunting reports in Wednesday's, Times deserves reproduction. It relates to something that befell the Dartmoor Hounds : There was a remarkable occurrence in Dunnabridge Plantation, where a fox climbed to the top of a tall fir-tree, followed by one hound. The fox got down and away, but the hound stuck. The master and whippers-in climbed to her rescue and lowered her with ropes.

Why did the rest of the hounds let the fox escape ? Chivalry ? Or were they too racked with anxiety over the fate of their colleague ?