He has been master of fox-hounds ever since, and no pack in the country has yielded better sport than his, or has brought out harder riders among the men and stronger jumpers among the horses.

Mr.Wadsworth began his hunting by picking up some of the various trencher-fed hounds of the neighborhood, the hunting of that period being managed on the principle of each farmer bringing to the meet the hound or hounds he happened to possess, and appearing on foot or horseback as his fancy dictated.

Having gotten together some of these native hounds and started fox-hunting in localities where the ground was so open as to necessitate following the chase on horseback, Mr.
Wadsworth imported a number of dogs from the best English kennels.

He found these to be much faster than the American dogs and more accustomed to work together, but less enduring, and without such good noses.

The American hounds were very obstinate and self-willed.