A southern sportsman of the old school I see — 

 A perfect gentleman born. 

 He knows a good horse and loves a good hound. 

 He likes a mint Julep tvherever ifs found. 

 And a moonlight ride xcith the horn. 



II 



FOX HUNTING IN THE SUNNY SOUTH 



HUNTING DOGS IN THE SOUTH — POLITICS AND FOX HUNTING — 

 VISITING A SOUTHERN PLANTATIONr^A SOUTHERN SPORTS- 

 MAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL — JIM. 



ONE maj' safely say there is hardly a plantation south 

 of the "JMason-Dixon" line, and east of the Mississijipi, 

 where one could not find a few dogs which are principally 

 devoted to fox hunting. 



In a personal letter from Col. Roger Williams, of Lex- 

 ington, Ky., he says "there are 100 counties in Kentucky 

 and each had from two to twentj' packs of hounds and two- 

 tliirds of the farmers without packs own two or more hounds." 

 Many of these so-called hounds are nondescript mongrels, 

 but they can hunt. Some of them are as good at opossum as 

 they are at fox. They ^^^ll "trail" the former by day, the latter 

 by night, and in either case give good sport, especially when 

 one comes to know the game, and appreciate it from a southern 

 sportsman's point of view. 



The Southerner, be he poor white, negro or one of the 

 "first families," is a born hunter. Fox hunting in the Southern 

 States is not an occasion for dress or display of any kind except 



