chase is destroyed. The fall is the best season for hunting, although the ardent hunter indulges in the sport the year around, and it is essential to keeping the dogs in a good condition that they should be hunted at least once a week, although they may be run as often as four or five times during the colder season. One thing necessary to a successful chase is the damp condition of the ground, for, unless the earth is moist it is impossible for the dogs to "carry" the scent with sufficient speed to keep the fox on the move. During the winter months the fox may be hunted at any time of the day, for he does his prowling in the nighttime, and, during the day, when the weather is cold, his favorite place is on the sunny side of a hill, where he lies for hours upon an old log or stump and peacefully sleeps until disturbed by the cry of the hounds or the hunter's horn.

While, to some, the exhilaration of a horseback ride may be the predominant feature of a fox hunt, those who participate in it for the love of the sport care little how they get about, so long as they are enabled to get within hearing distance of the pack. In Indiana and Kentucky many a man is the proud possessor of a good pack of dogs whose only means of locomotion are those facilities with which nature has endowed him. But the sportsman who indulges in the sport as it should be has a good saddle-horse, not necessarily possessed of jumping qualities, but one that is free from equine ailments and can cut across fields and around roads at a gait sufficiently fast to keep the rider within hearing distance of the dogs.

There are always in every pack what are designated as the "strike" dogs-dogs that by experience know best where to find the fox, and when once they give "tongue," every dog in the pack will go to them and take up the trail, for they won't cry anything but a fox, and the other dogs seem to have a particular reverence for them and their judgment. It may prove to be a cold trail, for the fox may at that time be in some distant hennery enjoying a chicken or feasting on a young lamb in a field half a dozen miles away. But an hour of trailing will perhaps suffice to get Reynard under way, and, when once started, he is usually good for a two

or three hours' run before he is caught or goes to earth, more frequently the latter. He may take a circle of five or six miles, or he may go in a straight course for that distance, and, in the latter event, the hunters will have to content themselves with a wait of an hour or so, for, in a rugged country, with ditches, precipices and wire fences, it is impossible to keep up with them. Hunting at night is preferable, for then the fox seldom gets out of hearing distance, seeming to prefer circles; and it is not infrequently the case that they will go through the same crack in the fence half a dozen times, provided, of course, they find the course clear. When the trail becomes warm, the dogs can "carry" it fifty yards from where the fox had passed, and, when the latter makes a sudden turn or "doubles back," the dogs run over it to take it up an instant later with redoubled vigor. The Boers have never resorted to more strategy to outwit the English than does the fox to elude the hounds, and it sometimes happens that he succeeds in losing them entirely, but this generally occurs when the ground is dry and unfavorable to the hunt. The stamina of a hound is something wonderful, for, in many cases, a pack has been known to run a fox for twenty-four hours continuously, although the average chase lasts from two to six hours. This would mean that, during that time, the dogs would have traveled something like 250 miles without food, an average of ten miles per hour, a feat hardly to be credited to a domesticated animal.

The Fox Terrier.

By REV. ENOCH PARR, Proprietor Clover Leaf Kennels.

The fox terrier has been bred pure for over 300 years, but for centuries was only known by huntsmen. The present popularity of the fox terrier commenced in England about forty years ago, and the progress he has made, in the estimation of the people of the world, has been phenomenal.

As hunters, they naturally take to all animals that burrow in the ground, and are unceasing in their efforts to destroy all such vermin, from a mouse to a fox or badger. They do not fear going under ground. They are also easily taught to tree all animals that climb. They are dead game, and will fight to death or victory anything they consider prey. Prior to about 1860 it was thought that this was their only mission on earth. Since then they have grown in popularity with all classes.

As general-purpose farm dogs they have no superior. While they are not large, they are very stout, and seldom show signs of being worried or fatigued. As trick dogs, they are easily taught, but they can not be depended upon as show trick dogs, for, should they scent a rat, 'coon, woodchuck or any such animal, they will drop all tricks to attend to their natural business. They naturally love infants. They are typical companions for children, as they will watch over them and inspire the child with their own determination, obedience, humbleness and affection. They are true as steel, and no mother need ever fear that the family fox terrier will bite her little one. They are very hardy, and can endure almost any amount of heat or cold. Almost every city in Indiana has some very good and well-bred fox terriers. There are also many so-called fox terriers that are only little dogs with docked tails.