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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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nd anchors with the best fellows alive, until theservants had retired and the fire burnt to coals and the coalsto ashes—well, thats Toronto. There is also a Hunt Club at Hamilton, another at Guelph,Woodstock and London. No better cross country horsescome to the States than those which are found in this part ofCanada. It is owing to the universal use of thoroughbredsthat Canada has been able to send to the States hundreds ofhorses annually, for saddle and hunting purposes. The oldest organised Hunt Club in Canada, whichI believe is also the oldest in America, is at Montreal, wherethey hunt the wild red fox over a rough broken country. Theyhave a very fine club house at the foot of Mount Royal, whichoverlooks a most beautiful vale and farming land, suggest-ing a landscape not unlike good old England. The clubpossesses a fine pack of hounds and the best appointed ken-nels the writer knows of in America, the Middlesex aloneexcepted. The few days cub hunting which the writer enjoyed with
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Hunting in Canada 121 this pack, was enough to show him that the whole turnoutwas as ably conducted as most of the up-to-date Englishpacks. If a hunt breakfast at the meet and a dinner at the clubafter a days hunting, to talk it all over, is not enough to con-vert you, or if a few hunting songs, a Highland jig, or a sworddance (by the popular M. F. H.) is not enough to put youen rapport with fox hunting for the rest of your days, yourcase is hopeless. At any rate, that is the way they round outa good hunting day in due and ancient form, even as theirdaddies have done in merry England and bonny Scotland,since the beginning. Thats INIontreal. But we did not finish with Toronto. You must stay for afew days hunting, if only to please the Commodore and see alot of good gentlemen, and the very best lot of women ridersthe writer has ever met with in a single days run to hounds.These Toronto ladies are not only the most accomplishedriders, but they are the pride and glory of the Toronto Hunt.

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