THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



President, a young Trojan dog, which ran home 

 to his old walk at Sopworth, On the following 

 Saturday, President, the dog that was kicked last 

 Tuesday, ran home to his walk directly we found, 

 and oddly enough his brother. Pilot, went home to 

 Badminton. I suppose his brother had told him ! " 



On August 27th, Lord Fitzhardinge's hounds and 

 the Badminton had a joint day at Mr. Kingscote's 

 Hunter's Hall. " Harry Ayris hunted both packs. 

 His pack very good." 



This was the first of several joint days these two 

 packs had together. Towards the end of the 

 season, Lord Gifford having given up the V.W.H., 

 the Duke of Beaufort was invited by the covert 

 owners of that hunt (not then divided as now) to 

 hunt the country. It will interest old V.W.H. men 

 to read of a day mentioned in the diary. The 

 meet was at Stonehill Gate. 



"John Fuller viewed a fox as he was coming to 

 covert, going into Braydon Pond. We went there 

 and found the fox, a very short running one. After 

 an hour of very pretty hunting, were beaten by 

 the Brinkworth crossroads. Found in the Purlieus 

 after an 'arduous draw,' and ran like the wind 

 forty minutes, going through 'the Pond,' after 

 having run between Ravens' Roost and Worthy 

 Hill, by Woodcocks, Pond Coppice, Stonehill 

 Wood, into Purlieus field (twenty-five minutes) ; 

 then by Perry Keans Gorse into Mrs. Keene's 

 wood (forty minutes) ; a check of sixteen minutes 



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