The Foxhound. yr 



and aniseed trail with evident delight, and we then 

 put her into strict training, and ran her with the 

 others. Over the course described above, she never 

 came within three minutes of the other hounds, giving 

 her speed at the rate of fourteen miles an hour. 



'' As we did not consider her fast enough, I have 

 lent her to my neighbour, the Rev. E. M. Reynolds, 

 master of the Coniston Foxhounds ; but the other 

 day, in company with Mr. Chas. H. Wilson, master 

 of the Oxenholme Staghounds, we ran the four trail 

 hounds a measured mile, straight. First of all up- 

 wind on the sands, against a very strong head wind. 

 Time occupied, two minutes thirty-two seconds. We 

 then ran them down wind on the grass. Time, two 

 minutes twenty-five seconds. No fences or obstacles 

 of any kind either time." 



Foxhounds soon take to hunting game other than 

 their legitimate quarry, more quickly adapting them- 

 selves to the change of scent than one would imagine. 

 For years they have hunted the boar and stag 

 in various countries all over the w^orld, and the wolf 

 likewise. Two years ago Mr. F. Lowe took a draft 

 of hounds from various packs over to a friend in 

 Russia. He says : 



" During our stay w^e had a trial with the fox- 

 hounds in an inclosed park, to see how they would 

 tackle a wolf. On the first dav the new hounds did 



