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FRANK FORESTER'S FIELD SPORTS. 
WILD SPORTING OF THE WILDERNESS. 
NDER this title I include all that 
is generally termed hunting; all, in 
word, that is executed with the 
rifle instead of the shot-gun, with 
the Horse or the Hound, instead of 
Setter or the Spaniel. Hunt¬ 
ing, in its true acceptation, with 
packs of trained Hounds, followed 
in view, by mounted hunters, can hardly be said to exist in 
North America, although there is one regular pack of Fox¬ 
hounds, kept up and hunted in perfect English style, at Mon¬ 
treal, supported principally by officers of the garrison. It is 
well managed during the short season, and has often shown 
great sport and fine runs. Many gentlemen in the Southern 
States keep packs of Hounds for the pursuit both of the Deer 
and the Bear, and, when the ground is practicable, ride to them 
well and daiingly, but the woody nature of the country, and 
the unwillingness of the game to break covert and take to the 
open, render it nearly impossible to keep near the Hounds; the 
principal utility of which, is to drive the animal across the stand 
of the ambushed hunter, and allow him to do execution on it 
with his trusty rifle, or his full charge of buck-shot. 
In old times a pack of Foxhounds was kept at Elizabeth 
