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Fox-hunting as carried on in Europe was a favorite 

 amusement with the Southern planters before the war, and 

 many a genial assemblage followed Reynard all day to the 

 music of hounds and horns ; but the loss of their wealth in 

 that great struggle has forced them to devote their atten- 

 tion to business of late, so that fox-hunting, according to 

 the old style, has become almost a memory in some places. 



The establishment of fox-hunting clubs and packs of 

 hounds in New York and a few other places may have 



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some effect on the remainder of the country, and cause 

 kennels to be established in various cities; but this does 

 not seem very probable at present, at least to any extent, 

 as the people are too much absorbed in commercial pur- 

 suits to have much time to devote to following Reynard. 

 The sport as carried on in Great Britain can hardly become 

 general under present conditions, owing to the wooded 

 character of the country, and the high and crooked wood- 



