The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-06
TO THE HOUNDS MUSIC.
The Hunting Season Is Open in En-
gland and Our Cousins Are
Enjoying 1t,
Bit the Real Sport Commences in
the Winter and Continues
Till March.
Pretty Scenes Witnessed AT q Beakfast
During the Notwithstanding Down
the Fox.
Written for The SUNDAY INDEPENDENT.

Written for The SUNDAY IN~DEPENDENT
-ASHION Is All HER BEST WHEN
Es) she makes men and women love
10 horses. dogs. boating, swimming
and all out of door games-when she
breaches physical culture. 1t is a good
thing to soc a man play lawn tennis under
d hot sun for hours; you feel that that man
could storm a battery.
Nothing is more encouraging to the
lover of all physical culture than the
limiting, shooting, boating and driving
mania in the United States.
Hunting and shooting are sometimes
uEed as synonymous terms in America. In
England they mean quite different things.
Hunting is riding to hounds without
firearms, letting the dogs kill poor puss,
as the fox in called; while shooting is to
tramp over field, mountain and through
forest, gun in hand, to kill deer,
grouse or PARTRIDGE, accompanied by
dogs. The 18th of August is the
monentous day, the first OF the grouse
shooting. Everyone who can afford it, or
has q friend who can afford it, Is off for the
noors or the 18th to fill his bag.
The LIST of September (partridge) and the
1gt Of October (pheasant shooting) are
gala days, and the man who cannot han
die a gun is little thought of. Even in
August inveterate fox hunters meet at four
or five O'Clock in Che morning for cub hunt
ing, which amusement is all over by Ii or
II. As the winter comes on the real hunt
ing begins. and lasts until late in March.
In the midland counties his is a special
feature. Melton, in Leicestershire, is a
noted hunting rendezvous. People (many
Americnns) take boxes there for the sea-
son, with large stables. and beguile the
evenings with dinners, dancing and card
parties. 1t is a sort of winter watering place
without any water, where wine flows in
streams every night, and where the brandy
flask ls filled every morning ''in case of &C
cldenta' while ont with the hounds. An
enthusiast in riding can be- in the saddle
ten or twelve hours ont of every day, ex-
cept Sunday, which is a dull day at Melton.
All the houses with such a nsighborhood
are successfully maize the rendezvous, or
meet of the hunt. People come from great
distances, and send tteir horses by the rail,
otDere drive or ride in, and send their hunt
sfA Valnahia hofnes theso) by II groom who
walks them tho whole way. Ihs show of
'piak" ls generally good. Pink means the
fcarlet hunting coat, wGrn by the gentle
men, tns whippars- in. etc, and the weather
1aaeS ttese coats to II pale pink, very much
satseinsu py tae oiaeF hten. They suggest
The seai6 OF a veteran warrior, hence the
nanlA. Some men hunt in black coats. but
hlwHys II top boots. It1ese boots are a oar
d!nai point In IL sportsman's dandyism.
Once or twice during the season a hunt
ing breakfast is given in the house where
the D,est takes place. This is a pretty
scene.
All sorts of neat broughams, dog carts.
and old family chnriots bring the ladies,
who wear as much scarlet as good taste will
allow. "
Ladies with their children come to these