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FRANK FORESTER S FIELD SPORTS. 



WILD SPORTING OF THE WILDERNESS. 



NDER this title I include all that 

 is generally termed hunting; all, in 

 word, that is executed with the 

 -rifle instead of the shot-gun, with 

 the Horse or the Hound, instead of 

 the Setter or the Spaniel. Hunt- 

 ing, in its true acceptation, with 

 packs of trained Hounds, followed 

 in view, by mounted hunters, can hardly be said to exist in 

 North America, although there is one regular pack of Fox- 

 hounds, kept up and hunted in perfect English style, at Mon- 

 treal, supported principally by officers of the garrison. It is 

 well managed during the short season, and has often shown 

 great sport and fine runs. Many gentlemen in the Southern 

 States keep packs of Hounds for the pursuit both of the Deer 

 and the Bear, and, when the ground is practicable, ride to them 

 well and daiingly, but the woody nature of the country, and 

 the unwillingness of the game to break covert and take to the 

 open, render it nearly impossible to keep near the Hounds ; the 

 principal utility of which, is to drive the animal across the stand 

 of the ambushed hunter, and allow him to do execution on it 

 with his trusty rifle, or his full charge of buck-shot. 



In old times a pack of Foxhounds was kept at Elizabeth 



