54 Modern Dogs. 



sportsman, and may be the sole survivor in England 

 of a class of men that can never be replaced. He 

 kills twenty foxes or so in the season, much to the 

 pleasure of the shepherds and farmers in this wildest 

 part of our Lake district. 



"Trencher fed" packs of hounds are not so 

 numerous as once was the case, though such are 

 still to be found. They get their name from the 

 fact that they are not kept in kennels, but individual 

 hounds have separate homes with the supporters of 

 the hunt, and are regularly got together each morn- 

 ing a hunt is to take place. This is as a rule not 

 much trouble, for, with a blast or two of the horn 

 here and there hounds make their way to their 

 master very much on the same principal that the 

 " bugle call" rouses the soldier from the bed and 

 draws him to the place of muster. Packs of this 

 kind are, as a rule, not so extensive as our leading 

 ones which repose in kennels dry and airy, and 

 arranged on the most modern principles. 



The largest packs of foxhounds are, as a rule, 

 divided into dogs and bitches, each sex running 

 separately and distinctly on different days. The 

 " ladies," as they are mostly called, are said to be the 

 smarter in the field, and to possess dash and casting 

 powers in greater perfection than the "dogs." In 

 some few of the big packs dogs and bitches are run 



