Identifier: huntingfieldwith01peer (find matches)
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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look about for the two-wheeled cart, which the Baronde Dorlodot said he would wire to have in waiting. Imaginethe writers surprise to see the Baron making for a big, lumber-ing, two-wheeled cart, a sort of gig; at least it had a top letdown for the occasion, and was hung on platform springs. Thewheels of this cart were quite heavy enough for a farm wagon,the shafts were large poles of natural second growth oak, whilebetween them was a great white Percheron stallion, over six-teen hands high, who would weigh something like sixteen hun-dred pounds. The trap was about half that weight and thethree occupants added at least five hundred more. The turnoutfigured out something like this, a sixteen hundred pound horseto a thirteen hundred pound load. Fancy, said the writer to himself, our trying to keep thepace of a pack of hounds after deer, in such a turnout as this!The whole thing seemed such a burlesque, that the writer neverexpected to see even the tail of a crippled hound. He felt sure
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THE MARQUIS DE CHAMBRAY The Marquis de Chmyibrays Hounds 301 he could get on quite as well, and probably quite as fast and agreat deal more comfortably on foot. Fortunately, he keptmost of these thoughts to himself, but he evidently said orlooked enough to call from the Baron, You shall see. The driver perched himself upon an improvised seat on thedashboard, his feet braced against the crossbar of the shafts,while the genial Baron and the writer occupied the blanket-covered seat behind him. The traces were very slack and whenthis great stalhon went into the collar, the conveyance startedwith a jerk that nearly upset us backwards. We followed along slowly in the procession. Meantime, the relays of hounds and riders had gone on totake up their respective stations, similar to the method describedin starting the chase of the wild boar, two or three couple onlyremaining with the Master, in charge of one of the hunt serv-ants. These hounds, in England, are called Tufters, and arethe most tr

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