Who, then, is the mar-joy? Surely not the humanitarian, whose desire it is that there should be far greater and wider means of enjoyment than at present, and who, far from discouraging the sports of the people, would establish in every part of the land facilities for manly and wholesome sports, such as cricket, football, rowing, swimming, running, and all kinds of athletic and gymnastic exercises. To humanitarians, pleasure--real pleasure--is the one precious thing; and it is just because there is so little real pleasure in the present conditions of life that we desire to see those conditions changed and ameliorated. Why else should we “agitate,” sit in committees, write letters to newspapers, and organise public meetings to expound our principles? Certainly, not because we enjoy such occupation in itself, for a more thankless task could scarcely be imagined; but because life is at present so narrowed and saddened by brutalitarian stupidity that to try to alter it, even in the smallest measure, is to us a necessary condition of any enjoyment at all. INDEX Accidents involved by hunting, 66 Adams, Maurice, on cost of sport, 45 _et seq._ Afforestation conflicts with game preservation, 53 Agriculture ruined by sport, 38 Athletic exercises compared with blood-sports, 129 Badgers as “vermin,” 88 “Bag,” a six weeks’, 104 Balance of Nature upset, 40 “Battue,” horrors of the, 83 “Battue-shooting,” 13 Beagles: Eton, 18; _Tom Brown_ on Rugby, 125; forbidden by original statutes, 117; not legalised until 1871, 117; Dr. Warre’s attitude _re_, 116; strength of the opposition to, 124 Big-game hunting: Mr. Ernest Bell on, 101; monotony of, 101, 102 “Blooding,” 155 Blood-sports: not manly, 56, 112, 136; at schools, 116 Buchanan, Robert, quoted, 69, 150 Buckhounds, abolition of Royal, 100, 130 Buddha, humane teachings of, 29 Burmese, the, and compassion, 29 Burns, Robert, on shooting, 93 Byron, Lord, on angling, 178 Callousness of fox-hunting, the, 95 Carlisle otter hounds, 30 Carpenter, Edward, on sport and agriculture, 34 _et seq._ Carted deer, 22 Civilised _versus_ savage life, 132 Clay-pigeons and live pigeons, 166 Colquhoun, John, on the poacher, 81 Compassion taught by Buddha, 29 Compensation, farmers and, 37 Cornfields damaged by mice and sparrows, 40 Coursing, 170 Cricket compared with hunting, 67 Cruel sports not public benefits, 60 Cruelties of stag-hunting, 10 Cruelty, definition of, 2 “Cub-hunting,” barbarities of, 9 Cultivated area of Great Britain, 53 Deer, carted, “accidents” to, 22 Deer-forests: acreage of, 84; effects of, 84 De Quincey’s satire, 142 Dixie, Lady Florence, quoted, 163 Dogs, gamekeepers’, 76 Drag-hunt _versus_ stag-hunt, 162