POINTS FROM LETTERS
EARLY CUBRING.
There must be many readers of your paper, who, week by week, enjoy the notes written on the page which is headed " Country Life," but who must have read and reread the paragraph on " Early Cubbing," in your issue of August 17th, with doubt and perplexity. I think that the opinion in favour of an early commencement of cub-hunting is almost universal. But the statement that a pack of fox-hounds has been taken to draw standing corn is so startling that it would be interesting to hear further details. One of the chief considerations that influence a Master of Hounds in arranging the early cub-hunting draws is the avoidance of coverts from which there would be a risk of hounds slipping away, and following a fox into standing corn. The damage to a field of corn by being drawn by a pack of hounds would be very great ; if a cub was found and hunted therein it is impossible to say how much damage would ensue. Whether the crop would be completely ruined or not would depend on its condition and of the weather prevailing at the time. A solution of this strange event may be that your correspondent has inadvertently written standing grain instead of Kale, which is a very favourite covert for foxes at this time of year.—QUERY.
REFERENCE FOUND.
In reply to W. D.. White, Newmilns, Ayrshire, the lines " Whence that completed form of all completeness ? Whence that high perfection of all sweetness ? "
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