THE FELL HOUNDS 69 



rapid hunter, an excellent trailer, fast and dead 

 game. SMp bitches to Woodland, Ga. All com- 

 munications to A. G. Gordon, Junr., Talbotton, Ga. 

 Stud fee, $35. Cash." 



The other advertisement reads as follows : — 



"At stud. 'Streamer,' the imported Eskdale 

 dog. Fee, $25. The one source of new blood for 

 all American strains of hounds that you know is 

 right. Write for description, etc., to Thomas 

 Hackley, Stanford, Kentucky, R.F.D. 1." 



Except, as I have previously stated, in the 

 East, American foxhunting conforms to sport on 

 the fells and the moorlands in England. Hounds 

 do their work quite unassisted, and so become 

 persevering and independent. 



Whilst financial considerations necessitate small 

 packs in the fell country, lack of numbers is made 

 up for by the ability of hounds to come out three 

 or even four days per week. Hounds are not kept 

 under artificial conditions, and so grow hard and 

 healthy, seldom suffering from any sort of com- 

 plaint. 



" Shall I repeat the story ? No, it were best untold. 

 Forty fair minutes he took us — minutes more prized than gold. 

 Than gold refined in the furnace, than the wealth of Golconda's 



store — 

 And they pulled him down in ' the open.' 'Twas an eight-mile 



point — no more." 



