280 FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
lunges and passes when he strikes or charges, and falling on 
again the instant ae turns again to fly. To this end, doubtless, the 
Scotch Terrier, or even the half-Scotch half-Bull Terrier, would 
prove an excellent coadjutor; but, although this gallant little 
dog has powers of scenting equal almost to anything, and very 
considerable speed, with immense endurance—as every one 
knows who has ridden to a pack of English Foxhounds, and 
seen the little Tenders never lagging above half a field behind 
the pack, even when running on a breast-high scent, and inva¬ 
riably up at the shortest check—I should doubt their having 
tongue enough to give note to the hunters of the course of the 
quarry through the tangled and pathless canebrakes. It is by 
the music of the pack alone that the riders or runners are 
guided, as the hounds are rarely or never in view until the 
brute is brought to bay, and he is often bayed many times be¬ 
fore they can get a shot at him. 
I do not see, however, why a cry of Terriers, with two or 
three of the old, deep-tongued Southern Hounds in company, 
which would follow on the traces of the fleeter little ones, and 
make the whole forests resound with their deep-tongued harmony, 
might not answer all purposes and meet all contingencies. 
Still it is desirable to have a dog or two, along with the rest, 
who does not lack courage enough to charge home on occasion, 
as on their doing so, in case of a rifle missing fire at close quar¬ 
ters, or a knife-blow being parried, it may be that the life of 
the hunter may depend. 
The dog now most in use, and considered the best combina¬ 
tion for all contingencies, is a treble cross of the Hound, the 
Bulldog, and the ordinary yellow, sharp-nosed cur Watch-dog. 
This is the Bear-hound proper of Arkansas and Louisiana. 
In the former of these countries, this sport is chiefly pursued 
on foot; in the latter, especially in the great Mississippi swamp, 
on horseback; for a genuine and highly graphic account of which 
see Porter’s Hawker, pp. 300, 339. 
In the former, the long, ponderous, clumsy rifle, with the. 
small ball, is the most commonly-used weapon. In the latter. 
