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this i^ack, was enough to show him that the whole turnout 

 was as ably conducted as most of the up-to-date English 

 packs. 



If a hunt breakfast at the meet and a dinner at the club 

 after a day's hunting, to talk it all over, is not enough to con- 

 vert you, or if a few hunting songs, a Highland jig, or a sword 

 dance (by the popular M. F. H.) is not enough to jDut you 

 *'en rapport" with fox hunting for the rest of your days, your 

 case is hopeless. At any rate, that is the way they round out 

 a good hunting day "in due and ancient form," even as their 

 daddies have done in merry England and bonny Scotland, 

 since the beginning. That's IMontreal. 



But we did not finish with Toronto. You must stay for a 

 few days' hunting, if only to please the Commodore and see a 

 lot of good gentlemen, and the very best lot of women riders 

 the writer has ever met with in a single day's run to hounds. 

 These Toronto ladies are not only the most accomplished 

 riders, but they are the pride and glory of the Toronto Hunt. 



"You must stay over," says my friend, "I want you to see 

 our ladies riding to hounds. It will strain your heart even 

 if it is past breaking just to see them, and break your neck 

 perhaps tr\dng to keep pace with them ; nevertheless, I am sure 

 you will say, 'it is worth it.' The same afternoon they will 

 sail you a race and the same evening," continues he, "you will 

 find them the best partners for a dance you ever had on your 

 arm." 



We stayed not once, but many times, and although some 

 j'ears have gone by since then, the mere mention of Canada 

 brings a vision of racing yachts, racing hounds, racing riding 

 habits that would not and could not be overtaken, to say nothing 

 of the charming partners that nearly danced us to a standstill, 

 all of w^hich has left in the wTiter's mind a hunger and thirst for 

 more Toronto, more Canada. Nor have we said all. It is 

 here we stock our kits for an annual shooting trip to lower 



