l6 FOX HUNTING. 



sons of Samuel M. Leiper were not fox hunters, 

 two of them, Captain Thomas I. Leiper and Gen- 

 eral Charles I. Leiper, were distinguished and 

 brave officers in the war of the Rebellion, General 

 Leiper serving in the United States Volunteer 

 Cavalry under Sheridan. 



THE FOX HOUND. 



From the information we get of the hunting 

 of foxes, the English and French hounds of that 

 early day were the long-eared, keen-scented, loud- 

 voiced hound, which is now known as the 

 "American hound," and which has been used in 

 this country from its earlier history, and were 

 used in England and France as long as fox 

 hunting (that is, following the fox by scent) was 

 the true sport; but as the stock of horses for 

 cross-country steeple chasing was improved, and 

 they wanted faster running of their foxes from 

 cover to cover, depending on the master of 

 hounds, huntsmen, and whippers-in to keep their 

 well-trained pack together, then they required the 

 faster-running, sturdy hound, with little nose or 

 voice, and, therefore, bred the shorter-eared and 

 nosed English hound of the present day for their 

 huntinsf. 



