very much at home amid such sur- 
roundings. Yet there are fox hunting 
conditions and customs in certain por- 
tions of the United States, to be 
surrounded by which would make 
them feel decidedly uncomfortable, 
make them blush from a sense of un- 
sportsmanlike conduct and the lending 
of themselves to nothing short of a 
travesty on clean sport patronized 
mostly by gentlemen. It would be a 
hard matter to get a Kentucky 
or Southern hunter into such 
a fix. His sense of propor- 
tion and the eternal fitness of 
thing's is too well balanced; he 
has had too great a part in 
lifting the sport to the high 
plane it occupies in America 
to-day. 
A well-known hunter and 
breeder of Jackson county, 
evloe dad “a most exciting 
chase broken up after he had 
run a fox half a night, and at 
a time when it seemed the fox 
must take to cover or be 
killed. There was something 
very mysterious about it. 
True, he had heard the report 
of a’gun but never suspecting 
the gun had played a part in 
breaking up the chase the 
truth did not dawn on him 
until the next day. The mat- 
ter preyed on his mind. Then 
he had an idea. He drove to 
the cabin of a wood-chopper 
300 yards from where the 
hounds gave up the race and 
there tacked on a board and 
hung on the side of the cabin 
was a red fox pelt, fresh, and 
fairly riddled with heavy shot. 
By sundown that wood-chop- 
per had put several“miles be- 
tween himself and his late 
abode—and he knew better 
than to ever return. 
The history of the hound 
that has come to be known 
as the “Kentucky” hound, 
though of half a dozen differ- 
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ent strains, is extremely interesting 
hound lore and adds by far the most 
important chapter to the development 
of the fox hound in America. 
A Kentucky fox hunt when it em- 
bodies all of its features is a “home 
made” institution, as are, in fact, those 
of its neighboring Southern states. 
The hunt may be by day and it may 
be by night. Both styles of the hunt 
have their devotees. Cross-country 

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MRS. JULIUS WALSH, A CELEBRATED KENTUCKY HORSE- 
\WOMAN AND CROSS-COUNTRY RIDER 
