68 FOXHUNTING ON LAKELAND FELLS 



" Thus at any time his ' foxship ' is trained to 

 the minute. 



" The character of the country hunted over is 

 frequently dry and rocky, many large ploughed 

 and cultivated fields, with woodlands strewn with 

 dry, parched leaves. It is not uncommon for 

 hounds to hunt half a day before a trail is struck ; 

 it may then be an old, overnight trail that wiU 

 require hours of persevering work before the fox 

 is afoot. 



" I am prepared to state that a hound that 

 would be considered a wonder in the grass coun- 

 tries of England, if cast with a pack m America in 

 our Southern States, where he would be expected 

 to take a trail many hours old, in a dry, barren, 

 country, puzzle it out for several hours, make a 

 jump (unkennel), and then run it from ten to 

 twenty hours — a feat I have seen performed scores 

 of times by American hounds — would find himself 

 hopelessly out of a job." 



That the imported fell hounds have found 

 favour in America is corroborated by two " At 

 stud " advertisements in a copy of the Red Ranger — 

 an American publication devoted solely to fox- 

 hunting — which I have before me as I write. 



The date is February, 1913, and the " ads." 

 are as foUows : — 



" At stud. ' Ring wood,' a full-blooded Eskdale 

 foxhound, bred by WiUiam Porter. A wide and 



