MARSHALL MILES 



RIDING ACADEMY 



The only riding stable near 

 Jackson Park :: Saddle 

 Horses for hire :: My spe- 

 cialty is training gaited horses 



5430 

 Lake Park Ave. 



Phone 

 Blackstone 941 



REAL ESTATE 

 INVESTMENTS 

 INSURANCE 

 LOANS, BONDS 

 PROPERTY MANAGED 



John A. Carroll & Bro. 



1553 E. 53rd Street 



PHONE 



HYDE PARK 



440 



"INVEST IN 

 HYDE PARK' 



There is a grass field beyond and about the middle 

 we see the fox traveling across it. There is an ugly sort 

 of bank and burn to be negotiated. We got across with- 

 out any grief. Hounds, horses and men feel the impulse. 

 Down a wall side the fox makes his weary way. We get 

 through a couple of gates, the pack is on both sides of the 

 wall, a ploughman and a pair of horses are standing about 

 a couple of hundred yards just about to turn for a 

 fresh furrow. The beaten fox cannot face him, so with 

 a last effort he jumps the wall, a hound grabs at him and 

 as he jumps back again he lands among the pack. "Who' 

 woop!" Time — 1 hour and 30 minutes without a check. 



When I was a boy I heard the old men talk of the 

 glorious days they had spent with hounds and ever utter- 

 ing a note of regret that the sport which Somerville thus 

 describes in that wonderful poem on the "Chase": 



"My horse-sounding horn 

 Invites thee to the chase, the sport of kings. 

 Image of war without its quiet." 



Of course you believed in this pessimistic view, for a 

 Scotch boy was brought up in the rigid faith not to 

 dispute with his father or mother, his uncles or his aunts. 

 But the records are against this view of things, for I 

 find in looking over Bailey's Hunting Directory of 1912-13 

 there were 497 packs of hounds in the United Kingdom — 

 214 of them foxhounds. This is a record number so 

 far as I know. The war of course nearly killed hunting 

 but since its close there has been a steady gain and in 

 many hunts you cannot see much change. 



While, as said above, I have hunted ever since boyhood, 

 it was not until 1891 that 1 began to keep a stud of horses 

 in Scotland or England. Since that date till last October 

 I have generally had a few good hunters. When actually 

 hunting I kept eight to ten horses and they were needed 

 to keep you going six days a week. 



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