592 HUNTERS AND HUNTING. 



Radnor, Media, and Lima there are more fox hunters than 

 you ever saw before. You are liable to be following your 

 own pack, when another pack, carrying their fox along on 

 the other side of the hill, will be heard, and time and time 

 again two and three packs join in after the same fox. Hunt- 

 ing in this country, you have to be especially careful about 

 the roads as they are principally macadam, and, cut as they 

 are through the country, you may take a drop of six to eight 

 feet. There is no country that reminds you more of England 

 than this country, and any one interested in hunting from 

 a sporting point of view should surely work in a season. 



Going further south we find the Green Spring Valley 

 Hunt near Baltimore; here are stiff post and rail, and the 

 country is no doubt hunted in the most sportsman-like way 

 of any Hunt in America. Good sport is given always when 

 it is possible, and when one goes home from a bad day you 

 may be sure that the master did his best. 



In Virginia the fox has been hunted from time immemo- 

 rial, and up to within the past few years the method among 

 the farmers and the natives was to start their hounds, go 

 to an adjoining hill-top, wait until the fox was carried by, 

 then chase along the road to the next stand, and in this way 

 they were able to know which hounds were doing the work, 

 acquaint themselves with the runs of the different foxes, 

 and have all the pleasure out of the game, except just the 

 pleasure that the average follower of the hounds wants, 

 namely, the jumping. 



To Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the other southern 

 States, a debt of gratitude is owed, for there the southern 

 black-and-tan hounds have been fostered for generations. 

 It is just their method of hunting that has made the breed- 



