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Title: The hunting field with horse and hound in America, the British Isles and France
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
Subjects: Hunting Fox hunting
Publisher: New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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thoroughly interested in thegame, and believes for the nature of the country and the gameand the hounds that it is the best adaptation of the sport to behad, and he can readily understand, if he lived in that country,and owned hounds, he would certainly do as the Southernersdo. Only he would go in more for looks, and style and char-acter, in hound breeding, which he believes can be maintainedand improved consistently with the southern requirements ofnose and endurance. The better to illustrate a fox hunt as conducted in theSouth, it may not be amiss to take the reader to visit an oldsouthern plantation, and devote a day to the game as it isplayed throughout the Southern States. Having introducedthe reader to the southern hound, southern foxes, and thegeneral methods of pursuing the chase, it only remains topresent the southern sportsman himself. This probably canbest be accomplished by taldng the reader to visit the home ofa southern gentleman of the old school—one who still breeds
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^*^r*t^ %» Fox Hunting in the Sunny South 37 and hunts his own hounds, as in the palmy days befo thewah, when plantation life was at its zenith, and southernchivalry was in flower. Although those good old plantation days are greatly mod-ified or have disappeared altogether, and although a victoriousarmy freed the slaves, devastated the land, and ruined thepeople financially, there was one thing that could not bedestroyed, one custom more powerful than a presidentsproclamation, one thing an invading army could not demolish,or poverty put to flight; i. e., the hunting instinct of theSouthern people. That at least remains. It had been bredinto the bones; it runs in the blood; like the spots of a leopard,it cannot be changed. As a southern hound fancier once told the writer, Everypoor man could keep at least one hound, and every d— poorman could keep two—and most southern sportsmen after thewar trained in the latter class. It is not uncommon for a politician to stump the country,goin

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