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Th.s Termination 20 the reg1la.
weekly -u2 Of the Elton beagles was
.!t:.e more brutal than usual. but
10. m2ch more. The Eton eagles,
which are supported b. subscriptions,
learly always succeeded il killing. as
ne phrase goes, when The carcass CT
the Slaughtered hare is Ehiried tri-
lnphsnt.y round the head OF the chief
boz whip and torn 10 pieces b. the
yelping pack, amid whoops OF tri-
gnph from Z gloating field A simi-
IA! triumph OF the Lton beagles, il
may BE- remembered, was recalled By
that noble sportsman. Lord Ross
more. IL MS recent book Of reminis-
ceIces IL these words:
One Of the prettiest things ! ever
cav vas 4 hare, very hard pressed,
that took 10 the water and swan
Iklt out into the middle with all the
hounda after her, but she was. unfor-
tunately, 90 beat that she was
drowned from sheer exhaustion half
Tay across"
The latest exhibition Of brutality
At Elton has shocked humanitarians,
and an inhuentially signed petition
was presented the other day to Canon
LytteltCn. the reverend head master
Ct Eton college, begging him to do
away with the pastime Of hare hunt
ing at Eton, on the ground that its ef-
feet is TO stimulate cruelty among
the young" This, By the way, is by
no means the first petition Of the kind
that has been laid before head Of
the famous college with a similar OBJ
ject, others in the past having been
/ signed by Herbert Spencer, Sir Fred
eTick Treves Sir a. Conan Doyle. the
lac Lord Wolseley and other famous
men, bit al without avail.
After due reflection Canon Lyttel-
ton who himself if the son of lord,
has replied to the petition in letter
/ in which he declines to do away with
the beagles. and an exceedingly re-
markable letter il IS. To begin with,
this man OF God. who, before becom-
! ing head master OF Elton, was the
! honorable canon of St Adams, and
who is the author, among other books,
| of one called Studies In the Sermon
/ of the Mount" asserts that far from
there being an increase of cruelty
among English boys many educators
are not without misgivings at the al
most unnatural gentleness Of the mod
ern schoolboy compared with his fore
| father"
How Insignificant then" says the
canon, must the influence OF this
kind of hunting be in the opposite d.
rection."
The reverend canon ends his letter
by declaring that, AS far as possible,
all cruelty has been banished" from
the hunting and killing Of hares by
the Elton boys. Needless to say his
shutting apologize as it is termed. has
called forth a broadside of whitening
sarcasm. One of those VINO pay their
compliments in the canon in no uncer.
tain terms is Sir Philip Burne Jones,
while among the reverend headmas-
ters critics are several old Etonians,
one of whom. after recalling Lord
Rossmore's pretty sight" remarks
That's my idea of how the youth
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