The Toronto Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR Dark blue 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, scarlet facings, dark blue collar 



MASTER George W. Beardmore, Esq. 



SECRETARY E. B. Johnson, Esq., Scarboro, Ontario, Canada 



HUNTSMAN - Frank Haynes 



WHIPPER-IN John Potter 



HOUNDS -- - 20 couples, English 



KENNELS Scarboro, Ontario 



POST-OFFICE - - - Toronto, Ontario 



DAYS OF MEETING Tuesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON \ ^°" '"°"'''' "" ^"'"™' ^""^ 



winter. Six weeks in spring 



CANADA, to which a great English writer recently referred as 

 "the future playground of Europe," has always furnished an 

 abundance of sport of the rougher sort. Owing to the rigor of 

 its winter climate, however, fox-hunting has obtained a foothold only in the 

 few favored localities where the inborn love of the chase to be found in all 

 Englishmen has been able to overcome the obstacles presented by nature 

 and the attitude of the French population, which constitutes a strong propor- 

 tion of the landowners. 



The average "habitant" does not as a rule actively oppose the sport as 

 practised by his Anglo-Saxon neighbor, but maintains a stolid indifference 

 to it, and it often requires much tact on the part of the M. F. H. to success- 

 fully handle questions of damages and to retain the good will of the small 

 farmers. 



Frenchmen, however, are really good sportsmen at heart; one has only 

 to consider the number of packs kept up in France at the present day to 



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