of the pack fail, his juilgmcut cau set them right. A case of this sort occurred 

 during the present season. A well-known pack of hounds found an old travelling 

 fox, who took them out of their own coimtrj', and across cold scenting, barren 

 hills, into one totally strange to their master and himtsraan. The scent, bad throughoiit, 

 here absolutely failed, yet over a country quite strange to him, from his knowledge of 

 woodcraft, he was enabled to hold them on the line when they could scarcely speak to it at 

 all, and that only on the grass lands, and by this means, after a good hunting run, kill his 

 fox. For this hounds have been carefully bred for generations, each fault noted, and as 

 far as possible corrected, each excellence cultivated and improved, until they can cope 

 for speed with the racehorse and greyhound, and hunt as low a scent as the most jDains- 

 taking harrier or beagle. And the end and consummation of all this trouble and 

 expense is the death ; that is the crowning moment that repays master and huntsman 

 for their toils. Some may take exception to our assertion that the foxhound of 

 the present day can hunt as low a scent as a beagle, and even go so far as to say that 

 some packs will scarcely hunt any scent at all. Eut we maintain that when such is the 

 case the fault lies in the animal's management and ediication, not in its nature. There 

 is the blood that has made the kennels of Badminton, Belvoir, and Broklesby famous, still 

 flowing piu'e as ever ; and where hounds are educated to depend on their noses and 

 hunt, they will still do so. If, on the contrary, they have been taught from 

 the time of entry to gallop after their huntsman, while he gallops after 

 the fox, they are not to blame. The opportunity of using their natural powers 

 and instinct is not allowed them, and consequently those powers are not dis- 

 played. But we are rather skirting from our subject, and must once more 

 get back to the line. Though the engravings presented to our readers are so good that 

 they may well be left to depend on their own merits, we must refer to the last of our 

 hunting series, inasmuch as it so well carries out our ideas of a good finish. There in 

 the open, with no covert near, is the death scene taking place ; and of the field who 

 perhaps an hour preA'iously saw that fox found, how many arc there to witness it ? Where 

 are the rest ? Coming, we will hope, but from the appearance of those which are up, the 

 great chance is that they are being lifted olf gates and dug out of ditches. The himts- 

 mau's old gray, game as he looks, is done to a tru-n, and had the run lasted much longer 

 the pack would have had the obsequies all to themselves. The tall man with moustaches 

 evidently thinks this coarse-quartered, white-legged, big one, who by the way must be 

 better than he looks, is for the present to be trusted without holding. The white-faced 

 one behind them is fresher, but he evidently has more breeding than the others, and that 

 will tell in a quick thing as well as in a long one, and the blood-horse, after standing a 

 few moments, will breathe as calmly as though just out of his stable. But the whoo-whoop 

 is sounded, in another moment the fox will be thrown to the expectaut pack, and those 

 present, like ourselves, will turn theu- backs on " The Death." 



