STAG HUNTING
[To the Editor of the SPEc;reron.] Sin,—If any of your readers still have doubts about the cruelty involved in stag hunting, I advise them to read the speech of Mr. Lovat Fraser in bringing forward his Bill for its abolition, in the House of Commons on March 5th. The speech is published verbatim in the official journal of the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports (101 Chandos House, Palmer Street, Westminster) and as far as I know few London papers did so. Mr. Lovat Fraser read to the House an account he had received from an eye-witness of a stag hunt at Cloutsam—as a typical, and not an exceptional case. In reading it one is amazed that such brutality should be not only tolerated but legalized in a civilized country which has made some excellent laiis for the protection of domestic animals.
An ignorant young hooligan is punished, and rightly, for tormenting a cat, but the wholesale cruelty of stag hunting is practised (and I suppose enjoyed) with impunity by well- to-do and educated people.
Surely it is time that this stain should be wiped off the
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