246 Hark Away. 



On the following day (Saturday) the fixture was 

 the kennels, where again a good " field " assembled, 

 and followed un their run of luck ; for, after running 

 a fox for three hours, the hounds went away again at 

 a racing pace, leaving off when night was coming on, 

 sixteen miles from home. Only five or six out of 

 the large number who assembled in the morning, 

 estimated at one hundred, were found with the hounds 

 at the end of the day, amongst whom were the 

 Master, Mr. Ingersoll, Mr. Whitfield, and Mr. Dupont, 

 with Champion and his whips. The going was 

 tremendously heavy, the ground being thoroughly 

 broken up by the long and severe frost. During 

 this protracted run, the hounds crossed part of the 

 Burst on country, going through a portion of the 

 Crawley and Horsham, as well as the West Kent 

 territories. That it Avas a punishing day's work is 

 evident, for it cost Mr. Dupont his old favourite, flea- 

 bitten grey, which succumbed at the finish, after 

 carrying him right well the whole day ; such, how- 

 ever, is the fortune of war, and a penalty must be 

 sometimes paid by those who ride hard, when horses 

 who have so long been out of w^ork are tried to their 

 utmost. 



I have before given my opinion respecting the 

 South Down Foxhounds in the columns of BelVs 

 Life in London, and such a week's sport. as this which 

 I have recorded will go far to substantiate it, and I 

 have no hesitation in pronouncing them to be as fine 

 a lot of animals as are to be met with ; in every way 

 suitable for the severe country over which the}" hunt, 

 invariably showing good sport, killing a large num- 

 ber of foxes, after such runs as those described, and 



