Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-09

in Scotland and should suddenly com
upon one OF these hunting parties
| whether beating the moorIands fol-
| grouse, or in mad gallop after tn
hounds for fox or deer, you could neve
| make an error In judgment as to whether
you were basking in the sunshine of no.
bility, or merely having the dust throw
| in your eyes by parcel of common NOR
tails. The latter, every year comprising
| a greater number of our own country
men who have graduated from the thrill
ing diversion of chasing anise-see bags
across the moors of New Jersey the
sagebrnsh sand chasms of Long Island
or the rocky Businesses of Westminster
county, are accoutered like baud of
'show' GiDsIes or the lords and ladies
OF medieval pageant. The old pale
blue blood of Britain scorns these trap
pings. Your true British uobleman fol-
lows the hounds or beats the moors in
raiment
SHINING WITH GUN-GREAsE
and the friction of ages, and as odorous
OF the chase as a Galway fish-wife g
braideen or Nottingham butchers
smock of her or his vocation. But to
either Darvenu or noblemen, the
etiquette OF the British sportsman is sa-
cred and inviolable. A hunter is in
variGbly "guu. A certain Ameri-
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" and cannot
track - 1t; and the tail of O fox is
modestly termed 'brush.'' To head
a fox, to halloa at q fox, or to utter any
cry of approval, advice or exultatlon in
the field, would prove a mortal oifense
to the master of hounds, and cause of
Infinite contempt on the part of your
companions. 1t would be impossible for
you to have good days hunting, but
you may have had ga good rum But
bunting strictly means, and
that alone. riding after the
hounds; while "shootins'' is only
applicable to killing with the gun. In
grouse and other shooting the sportsman
uses Two fowling pieces, and a servant,
called "loader,'' attends him for the
purpose of reloading them. If you we're
invited from the city you would not be
expected to bring your ''loader,' as
your host would provide one for you,
but country guest brings his own. The
greatest punctiliousness exists regarding
boundaries and trespasses. No GENTLE
nan will ever recover bird which has
ALLEN upon neighbour land. Should
erms Of SO great friendliness and init
macy exist as to make this permissible,
your fowling piece is always left be-
lind. Lltigations continuing for genera
ions have resulted from breaches of
imilar consideration and courtesy. All
'entlemen riding to hounds are guests of
hosts host wherever hunting break |
ssts are given. 1t may so happen at
meets, especially among friendly titled |
letghbors, that this hunting breakfast
3 provided in friendly courtesy by the |
ord of some manor miles from |
our hosts estate. AS guest |
ou are on precisely the same
erms under suoh circumstances, as your
ost. Although if ladies join the meet
hey are not expected to join the gentle
1en at breakfast, unless acquainted with
be lady of the house-though the latter
ever presides at such Decentralization
aides VII at once proceed to the draw
lg room. These hunting breakfasts are
lost simple and informal; They usually
onsist &C cold joints, salads, and ales
nd liquors, bitter beer taking the place
honor. They are served in the dining
l
arve the joints and open ales and beers.
entlemen guests going and coming and
elping themselves at will. No. other
zeal served by the aristocracy in Great
ritain is so free from Formally, and
lerefors so universally one of the
liefest
ENJoYMENTs OF THE CHASE.
The pursuit of feathered game in Scot
nd. q. Tor that matter In all Britain. ia
'incipally confined to grouse, part
dge, woodcock, pheasants and snipe.
though curlews, plovers, fieldfares.
tails, corncracks are plentiful, and ali
amer OF wild-fowling and fem SHOOTING
: ducks, geese, dunlins and coots is in
liged in ny those possessing more of the
ue scortsman's. and less of the sum- ,
er resorter's, instinct. Grouse and {
leasants fill the greatest number of
&c. pots and paunches. As August IL 6
sc lets the spOrtsmeu loose upon
ouse, these undoubtedly occupy the I
eatest attention. There are four |
rieties, the red grouse, found in t
'rthern England and anywhere south b
tho highlands In Scotland; the ptarm- 9
In, found only among the peaks of the g
'rthern Scottish mountain ranges, the u
image of which has the curious quality q
changing from the summer dress G
brownish yellow, barred with zig o
3 lines of black to a winter costume of q
re white; the black cock of Scotland i,
Z northern English counties, and the y
lgniacent capercailzis, king of all +
ouse, and only found in Scotland. n
from Norway and carefully