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There will be another time. The debate is interminable, the enthusiasm of the participants indestructible.
AT THIS POINT, though, perhaps we can join in, without pretending to any magisterial authority — or any sort of prejudice either.
A couple of centuries ago, hunting the fox was a fact of country life that was completely taken for granted and no-one would have dreamt of opposing it. A hundred years ago, perhaps, one or two voices of dissent were already making themselves heard. Now, in the 1970s, hunting is a fact of country life that is nowhere near taken for granted. It is quite likely that more are against it than for it, but (it seems to us, at least) those who are against it are not necessarily devoted to the welfare of the fox.
THE FACT is that fox hunting, unlike fishing and shooting — pursuits which
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