;^2 FOX HUNTING. 



corn stubble field, and his trick of doing it was 

 never discovered. 



The intelligence of the old hounds was fully 

 exhibited when the fox had tracked through a 

 deep snow; here they would plunge their noses 

 to the bottom of the track for the scent, and after 

 a few trials determined with great sagacity, first, 

 that it was a fox track, and then the way he had 

 gone. 



AMERICAN HOUNDS USED. 



While for bag hunting there was a disposi- 

 tion among some to boast of a fast-running 

 hound that was pretty sure to be the first at the 

 death of the fox, by fair or foul means, the Rose 

 Tree Club took no pride in such a hound for 

 their pack, if he ran far ahead of the pack by 

 cutting or circling when a loss was made and took 

 the scent without giving tongue. Such a hound 

 spoils the hunt, and the way they had to dispose 

 of him was to put his neck under the bottom rail 

 of a worm fence in the hunting field and leave 

 him to his lasting repose. 



There was no buying or selling of hounds in 

 the early existence of the Rose Tree Club, the 

 pack being kept up by breeding and crossing 

 from the best dogs of other packs, as a good- 

 fellowship existed among all fox hunters, and 

 little, if any, jealousy was engendered by the 



