. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. i,i. ( â . i '!'5 : ! 1 i! 616 Some .tmcncan S/foHin^f 1)1 i:i< iioi'M). a sharp-nosed liouiul. Still, the Ibx-houiKl was inlmduccd into Virginia at a very «'arly day, and in thai Stale and iti-rhaps in one or two others, h«' is to he found, and is still hrcd in coniparativc purity,â not that I woidd infrr that purc-hrcd hounds arc nut to Ik* s«< n rlscwhcri!. Individuals arc occasionally to l)c met wilii, and in the pack of Mr
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. i,i. ( â . i '!'5 : ! 1 i! 616 Some .tmcncan S/foHin^f 1)1 i:i< iioi'M). a sharp-nosed liouiul. Still, the Ibx-houiKl was inlmduccd into Virginia at a very «'arly day, and in thai Stale and iti-rhaps in one or two others, h«' is to he found, and is still hrcd in coniparativc purity,â not that I woidd infrr that purc-hrcd hounds arc nut to Ik* s«< n rlscwhcri!. Individuals arc occasionally to l)c met wilii, and in the pack of Mr. Joe I )onaluii', who hunts near liackcnsatk, arc to ho found sonu; lini- specimens. Nor is it ol ain use lor the most ardent hunter of lo-day to import ilo^s from ^land. It was not until the latter part of the seventeenth century that foN huntinj^^ and the hreedinjr of were |)ursiieil systematically in (Ireat Hrilain. and it was prohahly in the middle; of the succeed- in]Lj century that the sport was hrouj^rht across the water. It is a well-known fact that fox- huntinj^ was a fasiiionahle amusenuMit in X'irs^inia louii; prior to the devolution, ami it is not imi)rol)al)le that the okl style of Spanish pointer, then fashionable in ICn|j^land, shortly followed the fox-hound. To fox-huntinj;, however, we must j^ivi- the rtrst placi' as a sport followed with the aid of a doj^, and in spite of vicissitudes and tribulations of every kind, the southern gentleman still follows his pack, and enjoys the chase with the same; zi'st as his forefathers. The ,, - -^ fox-hound of to-ilay in /Nmerica, howeviM-, is a very /^ j'^ different animal from the houml now fashionable in , T I'Jijrland, and the choicest draft from the Oiiorn or / /^""^ t'^^ I'ytchley would be found almost useless in a ^â¢"''^ *\ country so thickly timbered and with such hi^h rail- (;ki viioi Ml. fences as ours. In the earlitM- ilays of the colonies, the hounds then impor
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