Fox Hunting in America 21 



posted or more experienced huntsman and hound breeder in 

 America. It is a well grounded notion in America that we 

 cannot breed foxhounds with the bone, style and carriage as 

 seen in England. This, as the writer has always maintained, is 

 a mistake, and it is a great pleasure to see the success that Cotes- 

 worth is having in developing these qualities at the Middlesex 

 Kennels. It is also most gratifying to know that the Amer- 

 ican-bred hounds from imported English sires and dams are 

 showing a greater inclination to work out a cold line than either 

 their sires or dams. This goes to prove quite conclusively that 

 it is possible that the fault with the English hounds brought 

 to tliis country is not so much a question of nose which prevents 

 their following a cold line, but indifference or lack of inclina- 

 tion to hunt such a Hne. Of course it amounts to the same 

 thing, so far as producing results, but the writer has long been 

 of the opinion that it is not so much the noses of English-bred 

 hounds that are at fault, as that never having been called upon 

 to do such plodding work in England as is necessary in this 

 country, they quit, not because they cannot follow the line, 

 but because they won't. 



We are offered a good illustration of tliis at Middlesex. 

 The hounds bred there from Enghsh parents work with more 

 persistency than the best of the imported ones. 



Mr. Higginson's great stud dogs, Vaulter and Vanguard, 

 in conformation at least, are very superior foxhounds. Their 

 wonderful depth of body and lung capacity, great bone and 

 muscle, as indicated by the size of the forearm, almost fault- 

 less feet, together with grand carriage of the head and stern, 

 make them hard ones to beat. Vaulter's measurements are 

 as follows : height from flags to breast between forelegs, twelve 

 inches, height at shoulders twenty-five inches, height of body 

 at stern twenty-five inches, girth of forearm eight and one-half 

 inches. If these measurements are compared with those of the 

 great Gambler, that Gillard pronounced the most perfect 



