25 FEBRUARY 1949, Page 18

FIELD SPORTS

Sm,—In a letter published in the Spectator of February 11th, Mr. E. G. Barlow draws attention to a case reported in an article which appeared in the Gamekeeper and Countryside for May, 1948, in which the writer stated that he had asked for and obtained a litter of cubs which he duly reared. Mr. Barlow asks if " the M.F.H.A. has dealt drastically with the offender." The answer is in the negative, one reason being that the writer of the article is dead, and the other that the incident referred to took place several

years before the war.—I am, yours faithfully, J. W. FITZWILLIAM,

M.F.H. Association, 5r Victoria Street, S.W.r. Hon. Secretary.