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pack down by invitation to Whittlebury Forest 

 and killing a brace of foxes handsomely. 



About the year 1853 Mr. Lowndes gave the 

 country back again to Lord Southampton for 

 a time, during which he hunted the North 

 Warwickshire and the Atherstone. However, he 

 returned and took back the country from Lord 

 Southampton after five seasons, and it has 

 remained in the possession of father and son ever 

 since. In 1862 Mr. Lowndes bought Lord South- 

 ampton's hounds, of which he retained the bitches, 

 selling his own pack and the Whittlebury dog 

 hounds at Tattersall's. 



On the 28th of October in that year I went to 

 see the old pack. When I drew near College 

 Wood, where they began, I met the pack coming 

 over the cross-roads into the Grove, which was 

 then standing. The people, one and all, pulled 

 up at the cross-roads. As I knew by the tone 

 of the cry that they meant to treat the fox 

 severely, I followed the hounds. When I arrived 

 at the bottom of the wood they were gone. I 

 halloo'd lustily but no one appeared, and down 

 to Little Horwood the 'ladies' were before me. 

 The fox ran the Gardens, which hindered them, 

 and enabled me to meet them in a dirty lane. The 

 thought struck me that they would not get on 



