Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-08-04
Copyrighted. 1881

| RIDING AFTER THE HoUNDs-TH. ETIQUETTE OF
| HUNTING IN ENGLAND.
copyrighted. 1851
| Our American gentlemen who 90 over to England
10 take shooting boxes and to enter into the life
VI lne hhgnSh sportsman, often are laughed at for
| the phraseology which they use most inappropri-
| ately They should learn. 1t is, therefore from
Englsh books that the following hints are culled,
| Ior knowledge OF sporting matters and sporting
| Terms cannot be arrived at by intuition, neither
can IL De acquired from "booksr only, but rather
| oy association with those thoroughly conversant
Win the subject and with whom sport has formed
| man.
| We need only read Charles Kinrsley,s novels 20
| learn now important is hunting and shooting TO
| Every EngLsh.bred man. Even the town-bred
n LIVES MS DAY on the m0ors. Those who have
mad little or no opportunity of ACQUIRING knowl.
Suse vi tne subject from personal experience can
ma no laii 10 commit many and various mistakes
tras olougnt INTO contact with SpOrtSmen and
uneir sports The language OF the hunting field is
| pee .,ha, sportsman would at once dub man
| q a. thorough cockney" We're he to term the
MOUNDS when out hunting "the dogs" and he
| t wUo,u even smile contemptuously at ladys
HS an were she to cali one or pack OF fox
| nounus dog" 1t would also appear laughable
IN the eyes OF q sportsman were a gentle
| ..ta or lady to speak OF fox brush as a
considered more than soecism, 1t would amount
70 crime In the social CODE were a gentleman to
nnooo iox IN mistake for hare mistake which
inexperienced Sp0rtSmen have been known to per-
Petrate 10 head a fox or to haLOd to a fox would
also De great ofense In the eyes OF the master OF
tne mounds as in those OF the field. man would
| not ask his friend II he had had "a good days
huinng" out whether he had had good run, -
vi ne would ask him ''where did you hnd," and he
woulu use the other expressions or like charac-
Yer, carefully avoiding the use OF unsportsman-
| topic.
| THE HUNr-BREAKFAsr.
All gentlemen riding to hounds, whether
strangers TO the host not have the privilege in
| england Of entering any house where hunt
breakfast Is given and partaking OF the hospitality
O Ohr Inc breakfast which partakes OF the
ale, bitter beer, liquors, &c. is usually LAID out in
| Ine dlning-room, and no ceremony whatever Is
Joint or fowl and helping to salads, &C. The gen.
| tieinen come and go at their pleasure, but al
| tnough ladies' join the hunt 1t would not be eti-
Quette Tor them TO join this informal meal II they
did know the family. The mistress OF the house
does not as rule, preside at hunt-breakfast, but
receives her friends In the drawing-room, and the
| ladies' OF her acquaintance attending the meet,
| either riding or driving, would on their arrival
| make their way to the drawing-room, without en-
terlnS the dinlnS-roOin; any gentleman, however,
| II luncning merely as member OF the hunt would
10 pay his respects to the ladies OF the
mouse, but ne would ask some friend TO
introduce him. We always see the green fields of
Engl and speckled with the scarlet coats OF the
hunters, what they call pink, but strangers being
down for few days hunting usually hunt In a
black coat. The members or the hunt wear pink,
or course, but they have a great horror OF a new
unspotted pink coat. They consider it "parvenu. y
The etiquette observed by spOrtsmen in England
Is very STRICT and there certain rules respect
To this sport which man makes himself acquainted
pany Of sporlsmen Many good stories are told of
these inexperienced sporJSinen, whO relying on a
superficial knowledge or the subject, manage to
commit very serious DluIders. For instance, they
oftener than not violate OF the first rules OF
shooting, that OF "never pointing a gun at any
| man or dog" a violation or which rule made MI.
TlnmHn
ABOUT THE DOGS.
The 'dog" Is great stumbling block to the in
experienced "gun"-aS the hunter Is called How
many ''guns" had you is equivalent to show many
hunters had your The inexperienced sportsman
Will say TO his dog, go anu tind there's a good
dog Find IT Sir, md It, there's good dog!' all OF
which cOnfuses and bewilders the dog and exaspe-
| rates the old "Sun," who only says, "Hie! Seek
sion 10 indicate each particular duty required OF
! the dog. Again the inexperienced sportsman en-
cages his party by exclaining when the dog Is
here, back; go behind, SIR" instead OF using the
one word OF command, "Heel!" Dogs properly
trained (and no sportsman would take out one that
was mott thoroughly understand the short word OF
command given. dogs memory is 80 retentiye
| that he never forgets a word he has been taught
or the application OF IT, although he may not have
heard 1t Tor half dozen years. Numberless good
stories are told In print and out or 1t OF the gnor
ance displayed by embryo gentlemen apropOs OF
told by his host that II he followed the dog well
trained pointer he would be safe to have n pood
days sport. did 50 literally, and hunted him from
him, when ION point" he dealt him a smart
blow 10 drive him onward, exclaiming 81 have
| tired you out at last, have ?n
ETIQUETTE OF HUNTING.
II Is difficult to make a would-be sportsman
| comprehend the strict etiquette maintained be-
tween the owners OF the manors; that is to say,
he would think nothing OF crossing the boundary
OF his hosts manor II he was following a bird or
hare he had wounded gun In hand, oblivious OF
the fact that In the first place the greatest pune
| tiliousne5s Is observed between gentlemen In the
matter OF Urespassing on each others land when
out shooting, and unless the greatest intimacy
existed a sportsman would hardly venture TO pick
up his dead bird II It had fallen on a neighbours
manor; he would on no account look for wounded
One Then he must carefully leave his gun on his
own side OF the boundary; he must certainly not
carry 1t with him to his neighbor's land These
are points which strangers invited for a few days
shooting are very apt 10 be ignorant Of thus caus-
Ing much annoyance TO their hosts, VINO are held
responsible for their mistakes. These petty OBJ
ServanceS are apt TO seem idle to the man who has
shot over our boundlesS praries but they are very
important In thickly-settled small country ike
England. When London man Is asked down
TO JOIN A SHOOTING PARTY
he would not take his 'loader" with him. as his
host would expect to ind him a "Ioader.r for no
man loads his own gun in England; it is the duty
OF a servant; but II he were residing in the
country he would expect to take his loader, with
him. and be could 'shoot with two guns" that is.
for one to be loaded might lose him a fine shOt'
Ii Is considered great Of1ense In England II a
man Is "nOiSy' when out shOOttng-lOudly talka-
tive or boisterously merry, or given to exclama-
lions when bird rises or when bird Is miss ID:
a true sportsman observes a strict silence man
"iooks" for hare. or "picks up" his hare he does
not "track" 1t unless IL is lost in the snow while
TO trap hare is an Onense only worthy Of a
poacher. Agentleman would not 40 1t even on his
own land. Every one "tlpS" the head game Keeper
from one to five pounds, according to the number
OF days shooting or the extent or the bag
Lord ChOlmOndelay gave TO Mrs. Patterson Bona
parte a fixed code or words to use which NAV be
say "drive," not ride" Qf It be in carrlage,.
Never say ''dined of ham," or 'Off" any thing Saw
"gtve me some Madeira or sherry :" never saw wine
except sport wine." "HuntingD means rdinV
after hounds, shooting" killing with q gun. we
might go on indefinitely with these differences be-
tween the English and the American phraSeolopy
II Is impossible, however, for an American accus-
toned 10 the ilimltable prairie or sea coast. the
freedom given TO all men to shoot everywhere
which has led to the determination or the Buff alo
almost TO realize the nicely with which game Is
preserved In Europe.
THE STATISTICS OF GAME
killed in France in one September were given in
the Figaro with great sOlemnity. Given 10000
communes In France and In each commune were
killed ten hares, total 900 hares; seventeen
part1dgeS total 1000; fourteen quail total
$4,000; one rail in each commune total 80. 600
rail. '"'0
Imagine Illinois or North Carolina keeping such
tally OF game; we who boast that 10000 game
birds are secured In one summer at one club house
The love OF hunting In England has led the wits
70 declare that the pheasant Is the sacred bird of
the English as the Ibis was OF the Egypttans II
Is certainly very much more beautiful Chantesy