INTRODUCTION. 



Mk. Crayex became master of the East Sussex Fox 

 Hounds in the year 1827 and managed them till 1837, 

 (ten years). Coloxel Cator had managed them six years 

 j)reviously, having taken them from Mr. King Sampson, 

 and having established the East Sussex Hunt and Country. 

 Captain Green took them from Mr. Craven and managed 

 them six years, when they were laid down. Mr. King 

 Sampson then came forward and hunted the country with 

 his pack for one season, and then gave up in the year 1844, 

 in consequence of ill health. 



From my early youth I always had an ardent taste to 

 hunt and kill the Fox, the only wild animal of the kind 

 that is a great depredator in our land. Often at the 

 meeting of the hounds, great complaints have been made 

 of the Fox making sad havoc amongst the poultry in some 

 neighbouring farm yard ; and these are my pleasures in 

 drawing for him ; see the hounds drag him through the 

 bushes, and in the thick briars unkennel him ; have at him 

 my good hounds, he is a rogue, he has robbed my neigh- 

 bour, pursue him with aU vengeance, and kill him. These 

 are my feelings in hunting the Fox ; I love to see him 

 fight and die. 



