148 Hark Away. 



many of the best performers witli the Southdown. 

 First and foremost on the hst was Mr. Streatfield, 

 the popular Master ; Capt. Kenyon Stowe, of the 5th 

 Dragoon Guards ; the Messrs. Peat, Messrs. Donovan, 

 Currie, and Bell ; Mr. and Miss Kennedy, the Misses 

 Nichols and Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Sassoon, Mr. Bell, 

 Mr. Molineux, Capt. Paley and several officers of the 

 5th Dragoons, Mr. Rodmell on May Flower, Messrs. 

 Tamplin, Stamp, Hodgson, Philcox, AVard, Judge, 

 and Simpson, and a distinguished foreigner on 

 wheels, delighting in the euphonious cognomen of 

 " Mahomed de la Rogy." In the first instance 

 Perching Wood was drawn, but Reynard the fox 

 Avas not at home to receive his visitors. 



On arriving at Truby Sands, a fine and stout old 

 fox went away at a merry pace, going in the direc- 

 tion of Toddington Wood, where he was not allowed 

 to remain very long. Then, being driven from his 

 shelter, he bore to the west, going through Horton 

 Rough, away by Small Dole and New Hall, skirt- 

 ing Parkwood and the Hen field road, on through 

 Cuckold^s Green to Woodmancote, and across Hore- 

 ham Common to Hoe Wood, where they gave him 

 but little time to recruit himself, running him up 

 and down the wood for a considerable length of 

 time. Then, being driven from his stronghold, he 

 retraced his steps to Toddington Wood and Horton 

 Rough, passing Brookside, by the w^indmills, to 

 Woodmancote, and on to Henfield. 



But the hounds had not done with our fox yet, 

 and he went away again in the direction of Sayers 

 Common, back to Henfield, through Poyning's Wood, 

 and was finally run into and killed, a little before five 



