lo Horse and Hou7id. 



its chief attractions, besides there is no sweeter 

 music on earth to the ear of the hunter than the 

 harmony of the tuneful chorus of eager hounds 

 in full cry, blending with the mellow horn. 



The following tribute to the good qualities of 

 a fox-hunter, by "Martingale," I feel sure will 

 not be out of place here: 



"It has frequently been remarked that the 

 heart of a fox-hunter is invariably in its right 

 place, that with him there is more ingenuousness, 

 more candor, more generosity, more vigor in 

 thought as well as in action, than can be found in 

 men who are pent up in crowded cities. This 

 peculiarity is easily explained. Although the fox- 

 hunter may not be enabled, like the magician of 

 old, to tell the footfall of Aladdin amid the tumul- 

 tuous roars, the noisy life currents, or life streams 

 of a dense community, he can do more on the 

 score of perception and penetration than the 

 dweller immured in the smoke of furnaces and 

 steam engines and the roar of machinery, or those 

 who are chained to the desk from morning till 

 evening, or nailed to a counter like a bad penny. 

 The laws of visible fact may be appreciated by 

 men whose god is gain and whose worship is the 

 aggrandizement of self, according to the nicest 

 calculations of fractions infinitesimal, but the fol- 

 lower of hounds possesses that vigor of frame 

 and vigor of action which have their invariable 

 accompaniment in vigor of mind and vigor of 



