Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-13

hounds for fox or deer, YOU could never
make an error in judgment rs TO whethel
| you were baskinE in the sunshine of no.
| bility, or merely having the dust thrown
| i'll your eyes bv Il parcel of common NOR
! tails. The latter, every year comprising
/ ii greater number of our own country
| men who have graduated from the thrill
| ing diversion OF chasing auiSe-seed bag,
! across the noors OF New Jersey. tnt
! sagebrush sand chaSms Of Long island
! or the rocky Businesses of Westminster
| county, are accoutered like q band OF
'shOw' GipsI-s or the lords and ludie:
of medieva! pageant. The old pale
/ blue blood of Britain scOrns these trap
pings. Your true British noblemau fol-
lows the hounds or beats the moors il
raiment
SHINING WITH GUN-GREASE
and the friction of ages, and Us odorous
( of the chase rs q Galway tish-wife s
braideeu or Nottingham butcher )
smock of her or his vocation. But 10
either pgrvenu or nOblPman, the
etiquette of the British sportsman is sa-
cred and inviolnble. \ hunter is IN
variahly q gun 4 certain Ampri-
canlsm defining ancestry may have had
this remote origin. The dogs are ALWAYS
''hounds. - You must say shooting,
and never "gunning. You "look
for hare or ''pick it up aud cannot
''track' II; and the tail of . fox is
modestiy termed a ''brush. To heal
fox, to hnlloa at q fox, or to inter any
cry OF approval, advice or exultntiGn 10
the field, would prove mortal Otfeufe
to the master of hounds. ind a cause bf
Infinite contempt on the part OF yoAr
companions. Il would be impossible f5
you 20 have good days hunting, bur
you may have had "a good run. Bul
"huuting'' strictly means, auM
hounds; while shooting ~ }Aly
applicable to killing with thSguW N
grouse aud other shooting thsssposts nah
uses two fowlins pieces, and n sstrvantS
called "'loader, - attends hild tor the
purpose of reIoadng them. II you were
invited from the city you would not be
expected to bring your ''londer. as
your host would provide one for you,
but country guest brings bis own. The
greatest punctiliousuess exists regarding
boundaries and trespasses. No gentle
man will ever recover bird which has
fallen upon 4 neighbours land. Should
terms of so great fr:eniliness and iuti-
macy exist rs 10 make this permissible,
your fowlng piece is always lett be-
hind. LIt;gatiOnS continuing for genera
tons have resulted from breaches OF
similar consideration aud courtesy. All
gentlemen riding to hounds are guests of
Il host S host wherever hunting break
fasts are gwen. 1t may 20 happen ut
meets, especially among friendly titled
neishbors, that this hunting breakfast
is provided in friendly courtesy by the
lord OF some manor miles from
your hosts estate. As guest
you are on precisely the Same
terms under such circumstances, as your
host. Although if ladies join the meet
they are not expected 70 JOIN the gentle
men ct break fast, unless acquainted with
the lady of the hOase-though the latter
never presides ut such breakfaSts-whe
ladies will at once proceed to the draw
ing room. These hunting breakfasts are
most simple aud informal; They usually
consist OF cold joints, salads. and ales
and liquors, bitter beer taking the place
of honor. They are served in the dining
rooms, q few servants being present to
carve the joints and open ales and beers,
gentlemen guests going and coming and
helping themselves at will. No other
meal served by the aristocracy in Great
Britain is SO free from Formally, ana
therefore so universally one of the
chiefest
ENJOYMENTS OF THE CHASE.
The pursuit of reathered game in Scot
land. or for that matter in all Britain, is
confined to. grouse, part
ridge, woodcock. pheasnnts and snipe,
although curiews, plovers, fieldfares,
manner of Withdrawing aud fen shooting
for ducks, geese, dunlius and coots is in
dulged i'll by those possessing more of the
true spor,sman's. and less of the sum-
mer resorter's, instinct. Grouse and
pheasants fill the greatest number OF
bags, pots and paunches. AS August u
first lets the sportsmen loose upon
grouse, these undoubtedly occupy the
greatest attention. There are four
varieties, the red grouse, found in
of the Highlands in Scotland; the p:arm-
igan, found only amoug the peaks of the
Northern Scottish mountain ranges, the
plumage of which has the curious quality
Of changing from the summer dress
Of brownish yellow, barred with zig
gag lines of black to u winter costume of
pure white; the black cock of Scotland
and northern English counties, and the
capercailzie, king of all
grouse, and only found in Scotland,
from Norway and carefully
preserved, after complete extinction
about the middle of the century. The
red grouse provides the universal shoot
ing i'll August and again in Uctobar.
After the shooting the box Is reached,
guns are examined, and most important
Of all gamekeepers are consulted as to
here the best packs of birds are to be
found. This can only be fixed by close
observation by those constantly ac-
luainted with the confirmation of the
'shooting' area and the ever-changing
habits of the birds themselves. The
easous, too, have an important bear
ng upon their hauuts. If it is wet,
he birds hatch at the edges of
Jraes and on the brows of slopes aud
Hills. If dry, they are sure to be found
llong the haughs, flats, aud peat moses,
Y where water is in close proximity for the
'oung. There is great labor III grouse
hooting. for the shooter must be a cease
ess walker until the dogs take the scent !
VI game. Light breakfasts and early /
WORK are the rule, q sandwich and flask !
# cold ten supplying all needs until /
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