io8 Horse and Hound, 



It is remarkable the ability they can show in tree 

 climbing when closely pressed by a pack of 

 hounds. 



They prefer a warm climate and are generally 

 found in all the Southern States. The red fox, 

 when he made his advent into the South in the 

 early fifties ran out the gray, but of late years 

 the latter has returned and both can be found, 

 though seldom ''using" the same section. 



The gray has a thin, weak bark with much 

 less volume that the red, the male of the latter, 

 especially in the spring, having a full, wild bark, 

 not unlike the coyote — though not so loud and 

 deep. 



The gray never depends upon his legs to save 

 his brush by eluding his pursuers, but doubles 

 back and forth, circles, and twists, runs fences, 

 logs, dodges and hides until the hounds are al- 

 most upon him. These tactics avail him not, and 

 with good conditions a pack of hounds should 

 tree, hole, or ''break him" in twenty minutes. 



The red, though a mile away when he first 

 hears the "grand chorus," will at once check his 

 baggage and start for foreign parts, and from 

 the speed \vith which he takes his departure one 

 would suppose his destination to be one of the 

 poles, and he had but a few minutes in which to 

 reach it. It is not until he finds them hanging on 

 like grim death and that he has not distanced 

 them, that he brings his cunning and ingenuity 



