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way by a club consisting of Saxon cavalry officers and a few country 

 o-entlemen. 



Paderborn in Westphalia has a club on the same lines. Baron 

 Fritz Friedlaender, a Berlin banker, keeps a private pack of foxhounds 

 at Laucke. All the above-named packs hunt carted deer or boar, and 

 occasionally foxes. 



Foxes, either wild or trapped, or a drag, are hunted by clubs 

 at Gumbinnan, Bromberg, Brandenburg and Lissa. The members are 

 mostly cavalry officers. Hare coursing with beagles or harriers is 

 practised by Count Borke at Stargard. Mr. Hewald at Randonatschen 

 near Insterburg. and Baron Heyden at Luetzenow. These three 

 masters keep their own packs. The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg 

 and his two Dragoon regiments at Ludwigslust and Parchim keep 

 packs, which are hunted by the military clubs at Brooke in Pomerania 

 and Neubrandenburg. 



Riding to hounds is not in Germany the national sport it is in 

 England, and is therefore not open to everybody. As a rule club 

 members and their guests are the only persons who ride to hounds. 

 It need scarcely be said that any gentleman who can sit a horse, and 

 an Englishman above all, is heartily welcomed everywhere, and will 

 find hard riding and stiff jumping during the hunt and good-fellowship 

 after it. 



