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Francis Nadasdy, is also a first-rate all-round sportsman. The 

 other pack, kept by the Count Andrassy, hunts fox six days a 

 week in the north of Hungary over very sporting country. Count 

 G^za Andrassy, living at Parno, is the master. A pack of staghounds 

 runs three times a week at Holies, in the north-west. The pack 

 is the property of the army, the commanding officer of the officers' 

 riding school being master. There are several packs of harriers, 

 as the private pack of Count Tibor Karolyi at Macsa and that of 

 Count L. Forgach at Mandok. There is also a subscription pack 

 at Zsuk, in Transylvania, which hunts over stiff, hilly country. 

 The master is Baron Wesselenyi. In addition to these there are 

 several packs of drag hounds. Unfortunately our climate agrees 

 but indifferently with English hounds, which seem unable to stand 

 the heat of our summers, and in consequence last no time. Their 

 breeding is, for similar reasons, very often a failure, so that packs 

 have continually to import fresh hounds from England. 



A very popular sport in olden times was that of riding hares 

 and foxes down with greyhounds. These well-bred Hungarian 



p-reyhounds, excellent stayers, ran down a hare at 

 "^ Coursing. 



almost any distance on the vast open plains un- 

 interrupted by a yard of cover for miles. The hares were few 

 in number and first-rate in quality, and the house of a Hungarian 

 nobleman was never without its breed of admirable greyhounds. 

 Nowadays the country is more cultivated, the vast plains are 

 interrupted by cover, shooting has developed, hares are more plentiful 

 and inferior in pace, and, what with one thing and another, this 

 fine old sport has been abandoned in most parts of the country, 



