The Life of a Great Sportsman 



" Meet : — Thornton College. Good day's sport ; Rawnsley 

 (Master of the Southwold Hounds), C. Wright (M. J. Bads- 

 worth), A. Legard (late M.F.H. of the Rufford), Lord Water- 

 ford (late M.F.H. of the Curraghmore), Col. Fairfax (late 

 M.F.H. York and Ainsty), and several from the Holderness 

 were out. Hounds ran with great head the first run and 

 killed their fox handsomely. Moderate scent with the second 

 run. With the third they gave Roxton Wood a good rattling. 

 Rompish, Wildfire, Sabine, Barmaid, Beatrice (Speedy Water- 

 ford's) did well. Ruin (Waterford's) made a good hit down 

 a road." 



The last two entries in my brother Maunsell's Hunting 

 Diary are well worth recording. I give them just as they 

 stand, and they speak for themselves, and any one who under- 

 stands hunting and cares for the working of hounds, and not 

 simply for galloping over fences, will understand and appreciate 

 his real love of the sport for sport's sake. 



" Very hard day : — Mixed Packs, Dogs and Ladies." 



"A Bye-day. Meet Swallow Wold. Found in a pit on 

 Sharpley's Farm and ran hard into the Swallow end of the 

 woods, down the woods to Grasby bottom over Raven's farm 

 through Cottager dales to ground at John-o'-Groats, 2 hours 

 30 minutes. Went to Pond close woods and ran round 

 the wood for ten minutes, then away past the Rectory at 

 Kermington on to Brocklesby Station when they marked him 

 to ground in a large drain — bolted him and ran fast to Parr's 

 Newsham chase, and he went into a small drain near the Gate 

 House. We bolted two foxes and unfortunately hounds ran 

 the vixen, but luckily she got to ground directly, and I took 

 the hounds and put them on the other fox and hunted by the 

 drain side past Parr's lamb pens into Pond close Wood point- 

 ing to Wootton, then back to Pond close and out towards the 



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