xvi List of Illustrations 



Bloodhound and greyhound, ancestors of the English 



foxhound 168 



The Master's "priceless beauties" 172 



" Delivers them into the aprons of kindly disposed farmers' 



wives " . . 174 



" Again you may find her sleeping before the boiler-room 



fire" 182 



" But the whipper-in takes after him. ' Ware rabbit ! Ware 



rabbit!'" 186 



"'There he goes, damn him !' cries the deacon of the First 



Baptist Church" 194 



'"The way in which they will afterward fool some silly old 



goose ' 206 



"Hark to Bluebells, hark to Bluebells," cries the huntsman 216 



Canadian seven-eighths thoroughbred lady's hunter . . .232 



" We saw three or four riders go to grass " 256 



" It is an old move and has worked beautifully on many oc- 

 casions " 264 



" Their heads go up, their music ceases. Again they are at 



a check" 268 



" She is turned out on the lawn in front of the house, where 



the grasses are tenderest and sweetest " 278 



"'Not a man on the place knows enough to do my work ' ' . 298 



The colt out of old Jane by Devil-to-Pay 304 



" There were eight of us at it, and seven got in " . . . .318 



From scent to view " Hie, hie, hie, hie ! " 328 



"'Break him, my beauties, break him !' ' 336 



