THE MONTREAL 



Isles of Jesu and Bizard, and the mainland north ; about thirty-seven miles east 

 to west and thirty-four miles north to south. The fences vary with the character 

 of the country; easily negotiated stone walls in the smooth pastures of the St. 

 Anne's district, post-and-rails on Isle of Jesu, and in the north the same 

 kind of a fence with a wide ditch. A clever horse that can jump and stay 

 is required. 



One of the authors remembers a very good day's hunting with the Mont- 

 real, during the season of 1 906, in their Pointe Claire country. The country 

 itself was all that could be desired, — small coverts with a good expanse of 

 open going, over which hounds took the Field at a rattling pace when once 

 they had forced their fox out of cover, — beautiful galloping, with nice, clean 

 rail fences, interrupted occasionally by a stone wall, until they finally put 

 him to ground under a pile of old rails, after a fast burst of thirty minutes ; 

 and then another covert drawn and a second fox found and run until dark- 

 ness made it necessary to take hounds back to the waiting train and so to 

 Montreal. Like this Pointe Claire country, many of the best districts are 

 reached by rail, and it is a weekly occurrence with the Montreal to " train " 

 to meets. 



During recents years the increasing use of wire fencing has made it 

 necessary to contrive some regular method of dealing with the evil, and 

 there is now a wire fund, maintained by private subscription and kept sep- 

 arate from the accounts of the Hunt, which is expended solely for putting 

 long timber panels in the wire fences in all parts of the country. The 

 kennels, hunt stables and clubhouse are situated at Cote de Neige, a little 

 suburb of Montreal about six miles from the heart of the city, and while the 

 nearest meet is about eight miles from the kennels, at Cartierville, their situa- 

 tion is such that it is very easy to " train " to meets in all parts of the island 

 of Montreal, and at times beyond its confines. The clubhouse is most 

 charmingly situated, overlooking the flat plain which lies toward Cartierville 

 on the north side of the mountain from which the city of Montreal takes its 

 name. Here it is that the members meet to talk over the day's sport, or in 

 the venter to sit about the fire and discuss the good times of the past season. 



Among the regular followers in the Field there have always been a good 



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