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ing a gala field, ten per cent of whom are ladies. 

 Many high-type American hunters are ridden, a 

 majority of them capable of going the line. Eng- 

 lish and Irish hunters have been tried, and though 

 game, good weight carriers, and speedy, do not 

 take to the country as well as the native bred 

 hunters. This is largely owing to the different 

 style of obstacles encountered, the jumps here in- 

 clining more to height than breadth, high jump- 

 ing being one of the first requisites in a Meadow- 

 brook hunter. 



The Aiken Hounds, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., 

 Master, is a private pack composed of thirty 

 couples of Southern American hounds, selected 

 more for their individual worth than for their 

 bench show qualities. This is attested by the fact 

 that they killed twenty-four foxes in 1902, and 

 thirty-three in 1904. Mr. Hitchcock hunts near 

 Aiken, S. C, in a timbered country, three days 

 a week, from November ist to April ist. That 

 he has confidence in his hounds, and it is not mis- 

 placed, is proven by their winnings at the annual 

 foxhound field trials. 



The Lima Hunt Club, organized in 1885, 

 composed of seventy-five members, hunts in Dela- 

 ware County, Pa. Their pack of twenty couples 

 of American hounds (subscription) is hunted, 

 three fixtures and three byes a week, from No- 

 vember to April 15th. Chas. A. Dohan, the Mas- 

 ter, hunts wild foxes over a hilly, rolling coun- 



