CHAPTER IX 



FOXHOUNDS 



America has much more of fox-hunting than 

 the average citizen might suppose. In England 

 hunting is a sport of such eminent prestige that 

 society news, fiction, and even poHtical reports 

 are continually keeping it before the public. In 

 America nobody hears of fox-hunting except its 

 votaries. In fact, they are rather a secretive lot, 

 generally living at a distance from the cities and 

 rather priding themselves on a contempt for the 

 public prints. The sporting papers rarely have 

 anything of hunting information which comes 

 directly from authentic sources. 



Yet there are few counties in the South or 

 Southwest which have not their quota of fox-hunt- 

 ing enthusiasts. While not exactly one of the 

 devotees, I can vouch from personal observation 

 for the statement that between the Delaware Bay 

 and the Texas Panhandle nearly every neighbor- 

 hood has its esteemed foxhounds — toward the 

 Panhandle using them for wolves as much as for 

 the " beast of stinking flight." 



Nor is the wolf the only game to share the 

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