A southern sportsman of tJie old school I see — 

 A perfect gentleman horn. 

 He knows a good horse and loves a good hound. 

 He likes a mint Julep wherever it's found. 

 And a moonlight ride with the horn. 



II 



FOX HUNTING IN THE SUNNY SOUTH 



HUNTING DOGS IN THE SOUTH — POLITICS AND FOX HUNTING — 

 VISITING A SOUTHERN PLANTATION^^A SOUTHERN SPORTS- 

 MAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL — JIM. 



ONE may safely say there is hardly a plantation south 

 of the "Mason-Dixon" line, and east of the Mississippi, 

 where one could not find a few dogs which are principally 

 devoted to fox hunting. 



In a personal letter from Col. Roger Williams, of Lex- 

 ington, Ky., he says "there are 100 counties in Kentucky 

 and each had from two to twenty packs of hounds and two- 

 thirds of the farmers without packs own two or more hounds." 

 Many of these so-called hounds are nondescript mongrels, 

 but they can hunt. Some of them are as good at opossum as 

 they are at fox. They will "trail" the former by day, the latter 

 by night, and in either case give good sport, especially when 

 one comes to know the game, and appreciate it from a southern 

 sportsman's point of view. 



The Southerner, be he poor white, negro or one of the 

 "first families," is a born hunter. Fox hunting in the Southern 

 States is not an occasion for dress or display of any kind except 



