it is customary to call them from the kennel by name, and one 

 at a time when feeding-time arrives, and among a well-trained 

 pack the circumstance of one dog answering to another's name, 

 or one coming uncalled would he regarded as a heinous offence, 

 and one that would certainly earn for the transgressor a tremen- 

 dous thrashing. The result of this severe training is, that 

 when in the hunting-field the foxhound will instantly obey the 

 most hurried order or gesture of the huntsman. 



The foxhound is not a particularly large dog, its average 

 height being under two feet, and of proportionate length. The 

 female is smaller than the male. 



THE BOABHOTTKII. 



This brave and valuable dog is the resxdt of a careful blend- 

 ing of other species. To successfully overtake and assail so 

 tremendous and savage a creature as the boar — concerning 

 which one of the most eminent of modern Indian hunters. 

 Captain Shakspear, says that, as dangerous game, it certainly 

 ranks before the tiger and leopard, — to successfully meet this 

 tusked monster three qualities are essential : first, speed ; 

 second, quick scent and swift action ; and third, indomitable 

 pluck. The first is suppUed by the pure greyhound, and by 

 crossing it with the English mastiff two of the three demands — 

 speed and pluck — are met; for scent and quick movement, 

 what better than the nimble, fiery terrier ? With the latter, 

 then, the progeny of the greyhoimd and the mastiff is crossed, 

 and the result is the boarhound. 



The reader may glean some notion of the sort of animal the 

 wild boar is to face from the following summary that terminates 

 one of Captain Shakspear's hunting narrations : — ..." I have 

 stated that the boar is the most courageous animal in the jungle. 

 There he lay, with a broken spear in his withers, the shaft 

 sticking up a foot and a half from the blade — knocking over a 

 horseman and wounding his horse; receiving two bullets, ten 

 to the pound — the first in the neck and throat, the second 

 breaking his jaw, and fired within a few feet of his muzzle ; 

 making good his charge, cutting down his enemy hke grass, 

 wounding him, knocking over a second man armed with a 

 spear, defying the dogs, and then, when in the act of charging, 

 receiving a shot in the brain, and dying without a groan." 



Boar-hunting is happily but a thing of the past in England. 

 In other parts of Europe, however— in Germany, for instance — 

 the dense forests still afford a stronghold to the " loug-tusked 



