HUNTING. 



CHAPTER ONE. 



IN addition to coining new words our American 

 friends have a habit of using certain terms and 

 expressions in a sense entirely diiferent from 

 their meaning to us on this side of the water. Some 

 changes may not appeal to our insular conservatism, 

 but personally I consider the Americans' wider inter- 

 pretation of " hunting " to be a very great improve- 

 ment on the restricted manner in which we apply it. 

 Hunting is a noun bom of a verb, and as such we have 

 grown accustomed to using it solely in describing the 

 methods of hounds following a scent. The English 

 dictionary certainly does not take this narrow view 

 in its definition, which we read as '* the act or practice 

 of pursuing wild animals for catching or killing them.'* 

 In America the man who goes forth to the chase 

 with hounds only, and he who depends on his gun for 

 sport, bear equally the title of hunter. This seems 

 to me the correct and sportsmanlike way of looking 

 at it. 



