1 go Hark Away, 



surprised if anything further is heard of hydrophobia 

 in the Royal kennels. 



I was sorry to see in the columns of BelVs Life 

 of Saturday last, a statement with regard to Goodall, 

 signed " C. C. H.," which, having no foundation what- 

 ever, as I have the very best authority for declaring, 

 leads me to conclude that some ill-natured person 

 had palmed off a cock-and-bull tale upon your cor- 

 respondent. Any one who knows anything at all 

 of the Royal huntsman would discredit and ridicule 

 such a report as that to Avhich " C. C. H." has given 

 currency. The idle words to the eifect that this 

 thorough-going and earnest sportsman had remarked 

 that he could not hunt the hounds himself, " because 

 he had a pain in his back," remind me of a remark 

 made by that clever and ready-witted actress, who 

 made " Jo " a celebrity, when a person was trying 

 to impose upon her with some pleasant little fiction : 

 " No, thank you ; it's too thin for Jo," and the im- 

 postor shut up like a patent rat-trap. Just so in 

 this case, the idea of the hounds being kept idhug 

 in the kennels for such a reason was too thin for me ; 

 I had so recently been behind the scenes at Ascot 

 Heath that I saw through the transparency at once. 

 In my humble opinion, the very greatest credit is 

 due to Goodall for his sound judgment in very try- 

 ing circumstances. Your correspondent is not aware 

 that the advice given by one of the best sportsmen 

 in the United Kingdom was that the whole pack 

 should be immediately destroyed, promising that 

 he would supply hounds from his own kennels, and 

 expressing his opinion that every one of his brother 

 M. F. H.'s would do the same. Had this course 



