132 Horse and Hound. 



large they are not kenneled and generally run at 

 large). 



One or two ambitious hounds will alone get 

 up a fox at dusk, and as they circle through the 

 neighborhood all the hounds in hearing ''hark" 

 to theni until ten or a dozen couples are bustling 

 him in full cry. Does the fox go to earth ? Not 

 he, earth stoppers are unnecessary; he will lead 

 them a merry chase as long as he can drag one 

 foot behind the other, or until daylight warns 

 him he had better ''seek the seclusion that his 

 burrow grants." I have, upon more than one 

 occasion in the "Blue Grass Country," heard two 

 and three different packs in the middle of the 

 night, each one after a different fox, making 

 music that would cause the blood to go galloping 

 through one's veins like a race horse. 



Thus at any time his "foxship" is trained to 

 the minute. 



The character of the country hunted over is 

 frequently dry and rocky, many large plowed and 

 cultivated fields with woodlands strewn with dry, 

 parched leaves. It is not uncommon for hounds 

 to hunt half a day before a trail is struck ; it may 

 then be an old, over-night trail that will require 

 hours of persevering work before the fox is afoot. 



I am prepared to state that a hound that would 

 be considered a wonder in the grass countries of 

 England, if cast with a pack in America in our 

 Southern States, where he would be expected to 



