1 84 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



of your followers want to ride, and some have 

 no experience of hounds, and as they believe 

 that you have only to find a jackal and gallop 

 away, are easily discouraged by the tedium of 

 an ordinary hunt. This means keeping a few 

 hounds for this work only, but five or six 

 couple will be ample, and some hounds will 

 serve in both packs. Of course, the best at 

 hunting jackal will not be taken out with the 

 drao-. 



II, — Bobbery Packs. 



There is, however, another and a cheaper 

 method of getting some sport, and that by 

 keeping what is known as a " bobbery " pack, 

 which is a mixed pack of all sorts of dogs. To 

 get really good sport, these should be kennelled 

 like hounds and treated much in the same way, 

 except that you would need less labour. Small 

 foxhounds, pure or cross-bred harriers, large 

 fox-terriers, and mongrels of a sporting turn are 

 all useful. Some hounds there must be, as 

 they find the jackal and give tongue and thus 

 keep the pack together. A capital cross for 

 hunting purposes is a pariah dog, choosing a 

 fine, healthy animal, and a foxhound ; the puppies 

 being brought up by and with the mother will 

 have many of her ways. They will, however, 

 usually, though not always, run mute. Leggy 



