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be there or thereabouts on the morrow. Starting 

 in good time, I arrived at Hangleton as Sherwood 

 and the hounds came into the paddock, and I had 

 abundant time to look over the pack. All foxhounds 

 draft from some of the best kennels in England, 

 they can go the pace, and no mistake; in blooming 

 condition, they do the greatest credit to the master, 

 who hunts them himself, as well as to his kennel 

 huntsman, Sherwood. 



A " field " of not less than 100, with many car- 

 riages, had assembled, amongst whom I noticed 

 Captain Keuyon Stow, Adjutant of the Middlesex 

 Yeomanry, and the Brothers Peat, the well-known 

 polo performers ; Mr. Cohen, Mr. Gregson, Mr. and 

 Miss Archer, Mr. Maple, Mr. T. Smith, on a raw five- 

 year-old ; and Master Jay, on a remarkably clever 

 pony, formerly the property of Mr. Dupont ; Mr. 

 Vincent Weston, Mr. Fred Frith, and Mr. F. White- 

 hurst, jun., etc. Within a very few minutes, a hare 

 jumped up on a piece of fallow, and went away a 

 screamer, making for a patch of furze at Toads 

 Hole, and then crossiag the Dyke road the hounds 

 came to a check ; then up she jumped again in a 

 field of rape, and on at a rattling pace to Dead Holt 

 furze, thence to the foot of Portslade Hill, where 

 the hounds checked again. There was scarcely 

 any scent, the day being stormy and cold, but 

 nevertheless the hounds puzzled out the line, and 

 puss jumped up from the rape, and made for Water 

 Hall, along Seddlescombe Valley, through Pond Brow 

 furzes, up to Seddlescombe Hill, and into a piece of 

 furze, where we had to leave her, as a party of 

 gentlemen with some beagles where shooting rabbits 



