152 HUNTING THE GRISLY. 



Every such settler is apt to have four or five 

 large mongrel dogs with hound blood in them, 

 which serve to drive off beasts of prey from 

 the sheepfold and cattle-shed, and are also 

 used, when the occasion suits, in regular hunt- 

 ing, whether after bear or deer. 



Many of the southern planters have always 

 kept packs of fox-hounds, which are used in 

 the chase, not only of the gray and the red fox, 

 but also of the deer, the black bear, and the 

 wildcat. The fox the dogs themselves run 

 down and kill, but as a rule in this kind of 

 hunting, when after deer, bear, or even wild- 

 cat, the hunters carry guns with them on their 

 horses, and endeavor either to get a shot at 

 the fleeing animal by hard and dexterous rid- 

 ing, or else to kill the cat when treed, or the 

 bear when it comes to bay. Such hunting is 

 great sport. 



Killing driven game by lying in wait for it 

 to pass is the very poorest kind of sport that 

 can be called legitimate. This is the way the 

 deer is usually killed with hounds in the East. 

 In the North the red fox is often killed in 

 somewhat the same manner, being followed by 

 a slow hound and shot at as he circles before 

 the dog. Although this kind of fox-hunting 

 is inferior to hunting on horseback, it never- 

 theless has its merits, as the man must walk 

 and run well, shoot with some accuracy, and 

 show considerable knowledge both of the 

 country and of the habits of the game. 



During the last score of years an entirely 

 different type of dog from the fox-hound has 



