Huntlng^ in Many Lands 



left unrepaired. It is true that they are not of 

 the strongest and best type, and that peasant 

 labor is still very cheap ; yet such concessions 

 to sport would rarely be made in America. 



It was at Gatchino, on the loth day of Sep- 

 tember, that the hunting train was loaded with 

 men, horses, dogs, provisions and wagons. The 

 hunt called for twenty-two cars in all, includ- 

 ing one second-class passenger car, in one end 

 of which four of us made ourselves comfort- 

 able, while in the other end servants found 

 places. The weather was cold and rainy, and, 

 as our train traveled as a freight, we had two 

 nights before us. It was truly a picturesque 

 and rare sight to see a train of twenty-two cars 

 loaded with the personnel, material and live 

 stock of a huge kennel. The fox-hounds, sev- 

 enty in number, were driven down in perfect, 

 close order by the beaters to the cracks of the 

 Russian hunting whip and installed in their 

 car, which barely offered them sufficient ac- 

 commodation. The greyhounds, three sorts, 

 sixty-seven in number, were brought down on 

 leashes by threes, fours or fives, and loaded in 

 two cars. Sixty saddle and draft horses, with 

 saddles, wagons and hunting paraphernalia, 

 were also loaded. Finally the forty-four gray 



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