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Bottom, a fre.sh fox must have stolen away out of the scrub-bushes, 

 and Perkins drew on the Ime, as another fox was seen to go over the 

 hill for Wallingore. At the pull up on the cliff, i\Iajor Cater was 

 one to walk and lead his horse homewards over Southease Bridge to 

 Beddingham, where he put him up at INIr. Todd's, because he could 

 not get him anj further, and there he died ; the Major was the one 

 to tell us to take care of our horses but did not think of his own. 

 The Doctor's old grey mare pitched on the fallow a most tremendous 

 fall. The Doctor got up and shrugged his shoulders, and found him- 

 self not much hurt ; he then paid all attention to the mare, she 

 struggled and groaned, and at last appeared to be quite dead : the 

 Doctor exclaimed, " what a fool I have been to ride my mare to death, 

 I would not have taken 150 guineas for her." The old mare groaned 

 again, but she soon appeared lifeless ; the Doctor lifted up her head, 

 but it fell dead ; he opened her eyelash, and looked at her eye, and 

 it appeared dead. The Doctor now got in a rage, and said "only to 

 think that I should be such a d — fool to ride my mare to death, 

 when I would not have taken 150 guineas for her?" he stamped, 

 and swung his whip, and said all sorts of queer words. One gentle- 

 man who was stopping to assist, thought he saw life in the old mare ; 

 he applied his whip thong to her, when the old mare groaned, 

 struggled, and got up on her legs. The Doctor said, " now I must 

 go to Brighton ; " he mounted, and rode off with the old white mare 

 and himself both well rolled in the yellow clay. 



Mahch 1, 1827.— On Thursday last, the East Sussex Fox Hounds 

 met at Laughton Pound, and very shortly unkennelled a fox in the 

 neighboiu'hood. Reynard went off in gallant style at a splitting rate,, 

 taking through Laughton Levels. The rapidity of his motion, and 

 the difficult route he had chosen, left many of the sportsmen at a 

 very humble distance from his brush ; many indeed, who were not 

 pinictiial to the hour of appointment, lost the opportunity of adjoin- 

 ing the chase at all. Leaving the Levels of Laughton, he made 

 towards Chiddingly, thence to Warbleton, after which he dii-ected 

 his course to Waldron, and onward through Heathfield to Brightling, 

 where he was headed ; he then shaped his course towards Burwash, 

 close to which town the dogs ran into him, and he was killed in 

 gallant style, after the most severe run that had been experienced 

 during the season. The wipper-in received an wglj fall, his horse 

 ha\ing plunged with him into the middle of one of the deep dykes ; 

 with some difficulty, however, he extricated both himself and his 

 horse, and again joined the chase, and was, notwithstanding the 

 accident, in at the death, an honour which only himself, one sports- 

 man (George Berry) , and the huntsman could boast of. 



On Saturday the same hounds met at Plumpton, and after drawing 

 Wallingore wood unsuccessfully, they crossed the river at Barcombe 

 Mill, and proceeded to the Plashett Park, near to which, in a piece of 

 gorse, they found. The fox went oft" in capital style, and produced 

 a most excellent run ; he however ultimately evaded his pursuers 

 near Short Gate. Many of the sportsmen, owing to the heavy state 

 of the country, experienced some severe falls ; but the only accident 



