10 Preface 



the chase. This taste for country Hfe and the chase is, in 

 many cases no doubt, lying dormant in the system. It simply 

 needs awakening to inoculate the whole being with an insa- 

 tiable thirst for the field, the wood, the chase. 



The kindly reception of "Cross Country with Horse and 

 Hound" would indicate that many a soul is tuned to the 

 melody of hound music, and the spirit of the chase, that never 

 heard the one, nor participated in the other. No author can 

 have greater pleasure than the thought that in many such he 

 may have awakened a sentiment that will burn with a will. 

 If so, the sequel is near at hand, for where there is a will the 

 way is not far of finding; if not in whole, in part. Hunting, 

 yachting, shooting, fishing, it will surely find a vent somewhere 

 and somehow. 



"The Hunting Field with Horse and Hound" is really 

 volume No. II to "Cross Country with Horse and Hound." 



It is the hope of this volume, as it was of the one preceding 

 it, to encourage a love for country life, to create anew in many 

 dormant natures, a taste for manly games of sport, especially 

 for men after they have left school and college, and also to pro- 

 mote the chase, that "noble science," formerly called the sport 

 of Kings, but which may nowadays more properly be styled 

 the King of sports. 



Not alone is it the object of this book to hunt with horse 

 and hound in different lands. A fox chase, for instance, is a 

 fox chase the world over, and if all there was to fox hunting 

 came out in the chase, the description of a single run would 

 answer the purpose, all the others being fox chases ditto. The 

 interest found in fox hunting with the different packs of 

 hounds and in different countries we shall take the reader to 

 \asit, lies principally in the people and not in the game or the 

 hounds. Especially is this true of fox hunting in the New 

 England states and the sunny South, while in Ireland and 

 Scotland we must not miss the native sparkle of the one nor 



