12 Preface 



The day with the Genesee Valley hounds is, in reality, part of 

 the three days' sport. All other days are faithful records of 

 the chase, with the hounds ridden to, with possibly the least 

 bit of colour now and again in connecting the events. The work 

 is believed to cover every class of game ridden to with hounds, 

 besides foot beagles, foot harriers and otterhounds. 



Again the writer takes pleasure in calling upon his old 

 friend, W. Phillpotts Williams, for liberal quotations from his 

 delightful "Poems in Pink" and "Rhymes in Red," and the 

 immortal Somervile, who so often came to the writer's rescue 

 in his former volume, when his own pen was "up a stump" for 

 the right thing to say. 



Some of the chapters which stand next to each other in this 

 book were written fifteen years apart, most of them were 

 thrashed out during the time spent in ocean crossings between 

 1891 and 1906. This probably accounts for some chapters 

 having a list to port and others to starboard, while still others 

 alternately head for the bottom of the sea or a star at meridian. 

 They may be like a clock, the great temperance lecturer, John 

 B. Gough, was fond of telling about, i. e., when its hands 

 pointed to twenty minutes past eleven and it struck four "the 

 owner" said he "knew it was just one o'clock." So with these 

 chapters, it matters little where they point or how they strike, 

 as long as the reader understands they point to clean sport and 

 strike for true sportsmanship. 



It is with great pleasure that the author is able to present 

 herevidth six full page reproductions of oil paintings, done 

 especially to illustrate the text, by the clever horse and hound 

 artist, Julian Ingersoll Chamberlain. Whatever may be said 

 for or against their artistic merit, all hunting men will enjoy 

 them for their true hunting spirit and the Hfe-like action of 

 both horses and hounds. To the numerous Masters of hounds, 

 clever huntsmen and brother sportsmen both at home and 

 abroad, who have done so much to make this volume possible, 



