362 The Wilderness Hunter. 



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 

 hunting, 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 wildcat, the hunters carry guns 

 with them on their horses, and endeavor either to get a 

 shot at the fleeing animal by hard and dexterous riding, 

 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 horse- 

 back, it nevertheless has its merits, as the man must walk 

 and run well, shoot with some accuracy, and show consid- 

 erable 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 firmly established itself 

 in the field of American sport. This is the greyhound, 

 whether the smooth-haired, or the rough-coated Scotch 



