212 CENTURY OF ENGLISH FOX-HUNTING 



Staghounds on April 2ist, 1858, when a hind and 

 calf were found in Sweetworthy, Cloutsham. Leaving 

 Larkbarrow to the left, hounds reached Badgworthy 

 Wood in exactly thirty minutes. Eventually the 

 deer went over Freath Gap, four hundred feet, into 

 the sea, one of the hounds, Warrior, following. The 

 hound was smashed to atoms, but the deer got safely 

 to Porlock Common, where she was joined by her 

 hind. Both were killed. Mr. Bisset's succinct ac- 

 count of the run is as follows : " Distance from 

 thirty-two to thirty-five miles. Heat awful ; pace 

 tremendous. Nine men up, including Master and 

 whip, and nine couple of hounds. ... A day of 

 slaughter : the hind, her calf, a hound, a sheep which 

 went over the cliffs soon after the hind, and four 

 horses." I have before me two accounts taken from 

 the MS. Journal at Castle Hill during the Mastership 

 of the first Earl Fortescue, in 181 5, of runs over 

 Exmoor. In the first the stag was killed at 4.30 

 p.m., the pack having been laid on at 11 a.m. ; in 

 the second the stag was killed at 6.20 p.m., only five 

 men being in at the death. The final note to the 

 latter run is, " The longest chase ever remembered." 



But how is it possible to make any selection from 

 such a company as Mr. Little Gilmour, Captain 

 Horatio Ross, Lord Clanricarde, Lord Jersey, Lord 

 Dysart, Colonel Forester, Mr. Maxse, Sir James 

 Musgrove, Sir Richard Sutton, Mr. Tom Edge, 

 Mr. Moore (of Appleby), Mr. Sterling Crawfurd, 

 Lord Strathmore, Sir Thomas Whichcote, Sir Francis 



