his is the 2nd carousel horse that Larry carved for me. Let me pass along a story about our "Covertside Bassets" pack of hounds we hunted (without guns) for 7-1/2 years, here in Middle Tennessee's rolling hills. We also competed in Field Trials. It was strictly for the hound work, i.e., how well they worked together, ran the line, put the quarry to ground, marked the hole, etc.

A male hound is called a dog, and as we had a mixture of dogs and bitches, our Basset pack, as with others' hunting packs, were referred to as 'hounds'. They were English Bassets, with some having 1/4 French Basset blood in them, as well. Our pack was, 'lemon and white' in color, the lemon color really being varying shades of light-to-dark brown. We were fortunate to have good hunting hounds with that color (Larry's preference was having a uniform-pack), though talent would have been an overriding factor in using a black and white, or a tri-color hound. Using hunting vernacular, we ordinarily kept about 8 couple of hounds (that would be 16 hounds).

Larry was the Huntsman, and I whipped in (kept an eye out for unwanted quarry such as deer, and other potential mischief) along with three friends. Larry carved this symbolic horse, naming it View From A Carousel, as the hound is viewing (a hunting term) the running rabbit.