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are trained to drag -hunting as well, and have made 

 some spirited runs over the beautiful country at the head 

 of the San Gabriel Valley. There are two or three 

 small packs of hounds in and about Pasadena ; one 

 in the vicinity of the San Fernando Valley, and per- 

 haps the best and largest in the Santiago Cafton, a val- 

 ley to the south of the San Gabriel, reaching down to 

 the sea. Here, extending out from the foothills which 

 constitute a sort of coast range ten or fifteen miles from 

 it, some of the finest lynx or wild cat hunting in Cali- 

 fornia is found. The country is beautifully situated, 

 being in the main a splendid oak park with a series 

 of well-wooded canons. Nearly all are occupied by 

 ranchers, and well up Santiago Canon is the attractive 

 mountain home of Mr. J. E. Pleasants, Master of 

 Hounds of the Santiago Hunt Club of Orange, whose 

 hospitality and meets are well known. 



This club has hunted the country nine or ten years, 

 and game, fox, coyote, and lynx, is so plentiful that there 

 is constant exercise for the pack. The dogs, Trilby, 

 Don, Pluto, Mack, Diana, Flash, and many more, are 

 from Southern stock, recruited from Virginia, Kentucky, 

 Georgia, and Alabama, and some of them, owned by 

 the hunt and Dr. Page of Pasadena, are remarkable 

 hunters. The master of the hounds lives up the cafton 

 twenty miles from the city of Santa Ana, and twice a 

 year, in May and October, special hunts are enjoyed 

 that have a wide reputation. They are held in Orange 

 County Park, a fine piece of well-wooded country about 



