1 1 6 Horse a7id Hound. 



been able to credit a fox with is his propensity 

 for regularly running the same line. I have 

 known foxes to have a regular course as well laid 

 out and adhered to as a steeplechase, and no mat- 

 ter how often he might be run he would take the 

 same identical course, even to jumping a fence or 

 wall at a given point, and not varying it a single 

 panel. Doubtless they realize the "ethics" of a 

 sportsman will not allow him to take an undue 

 advantage by putting in fresh hounds once the 

 chase has begun. 



As before stated, Americans are more easily 

 satisfied with a run without a kill than their Eng- 

 lish cousins. If a stiff-neck red has given them a 

 good run, they will often give him a new lease of 

 life by whipping off the hounds when it is possible 

 to do so, and it is an extremely rare occurrence 

 for a fox once having reached his hole to be 

 routed out and killed. In fact, so few kills are 

 made that the fox may well be said to take his 

 own "lease of life." 



Strange as it may seem, foxes are more easily 

 lost at the end of a run, when tired and ex- 

 hausted, than when fresh. In the latter condi- 

 tion they depend upon their heels saving their 

 pelts, and it is only when wearied that they be- 

 gin the maneuvers of cunning and sagacity for 

 w^hich they are famous. Some think a sinking 

 fox gives less scent, but I have never been able 

 to verifv this. 



