20 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 19

STAG HUNTING

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sra,—No doubt you are having some reference to the stag- hunting at Minehead last Saturday. Following so close upon the still greater tragedy last July at Lynmouth, where a stag was driven over the cliffs and dashed to pieces two hundred feet below, a shudder of shame has run over the country.

But what can we expect : as long as we teach our Eton Scholars to hunt the hare, we shall have all the barbarities connected with all forms of hunting. We must stop the evil at the source and demand that the Drag shall be sub- stituted, as at certain Staff Colleges and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.—I am, Sir, &c.

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