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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1876. 



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Volume 7, Nuinbei 9. 

 17 Chatham St. ( City H all feqr.) 



For Forest and Stream. 



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"No pport to the chase can compare, 



So manly the pleasure it yields. 

 How sweet, how refreshing that air, 



Inhaled in the woods, and the fields 



As we rush on the trail, new scenes appear, 



New landscapes encounter the eye. 

 No Handel's s^eet music more pleases the ear 



Than that cf the hounds in full cry." 



IT is singular, that fox hunting has not become a national 

 pastime. In Great Britain it is the sport par excellence 

 of the gentlemen, and no establishment is complete with- 

 out the kennel. Any one who has ever been on a fox hunt 



will never forget the vivid pleasure and intense excitement 

 of the chase; it has all dash of the steeple race without its 

 great danger; besides it is an essentially social sport, and 

 tends more than anything else to brin^ people together in 

 close amity. It is the most manly exercise in the world. 

 All the poets have embellished the subject with the charm 

 of their genius. "Virgil makes his young Ascanius a 

 sportsman as soon as he is able to sit his horse." 



Horace, in disgust of a womanly youth recommends in 

 his epistle to Soil i us the chase, not ouly as a noble exer- 

 cise, but as contributing to health and peace of mind. 

 His Carmen Seculare was written in honor of manly sports. 

 Ovid, Pliny, Tacitus, and all the classic authors, write in 

 its favor. Somerville's poem, "The Chase," will live to 

 the end of time 



The fox is the most sagacious animal that breathes; he 

 has more sharpness, shrewdness and cunning than any 

 other brute. A gentleman told me that one night he heard 

 a fearful racket in his hen house, and going in, he found a 

 fox, who appeared to be dead, He kicked the body, and 

 threw the carcass among the dog, who snarled and fought 

 over it. All this time the fox remained lifeless, and con- 

 vinced him that it was only a dead body, and so he let it 

 he, but found the next morning that it had teen playing 

 'possum, and had had the nerve to suffer and endure all 

 this torture for its. life. Another sportsman said that he 

 had seen a fox counterfeit death so naturally, that a lighted 

 paper passed across his nose and eyes failed to move a 

 muscle. How long the fox will run, or his ex.ct speed, 

 are questions not ea^ilv answered. A red fox was once 



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HUNTER'S CAMP. 



Erected by Forest and Stream Publishing Company, of New York, in Lansdowne Ravine, Centennial Exhibition Grounds, Philadelphia. 



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1876. 



Notwithstanding that we printed a large extra edition of our paper of June 29th, containing the sketch of the "Hunter's Camp" at the Centennial Exhibition Grounds, every copy- 

 has been sold. Requests for pictures of the same as souvernir's continue so pressing that we are constrained to republish the same, which we trust our subscribers will pardon, 

 as they will doubtless appreciate our position. The Hunter's Camp is constantly thronged, and forms a very attractive feature of the show. Between the engravings already published 

 by Harper* 8 Weekly, Frank Leslie's, this paper, and others, the public onght to be abundantly supplied witii the same. 



