14 GAME ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



it is a very profitable business, if you are only successful in your 

 " catch." 



Wolfers form a class by themselves and this is their regular 

 occupation during the winter season. Spring time finds them in 

 the towns where in a week's time they have gambled and drunk 

 away all their earnings ; they then disappear, not to be seen again 

 until the following spring. 



Wolves are sometimes hunted on horseback with hounds, but 

 the speed they can attain when well scared is something astonish- 

 ing, and they can easily distance any ordinary dogs. The method 

 employed is to have among the pack, one or more greyhounds 

 who will bring the vyolf to bay and allow the other dogs to come up. 



Some day in the not very remote future, this kind of sport and 

 coursing hares is destined to become popular and will be a favorite 

 •musement among the sportsmen of the West. 



Naturally the war, and the poverty which followed it, mod- 

 erated the fondness which was entertained for fox hunting in the 

 Southern States. Now, however, eighteen years after the war, 

 the old fondness for fox hunting apparently prevails as much in 

 the Southern States as in ante-bellum times. Furthermore, 

 the fondness for this exhilarating sport is rapidly developing in 

 the Northern States. During the last four or five years, parties 

 of ladies and gentlemen have regularly participated in the chase 

 on Long Island, Staten Island, New Jersey, and elsewhere. 



