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maintains the most friendly relations with the Master 

 of the Brighton Harriers, was amongst the number 

 attending on this gloomy morning, as were also Lord 

 Kilmaine, Captain Kingcaide Smith, and Miss Kirig- 

 caide Smith, well momited on a useful grey, which 

 she rode with courage and judgment over hill and 

 dale, notwithstanding the fog Avhich enveloped the 

 doAVDS, and 23revented those who did not keep close 

 to the tails of the hounds from seeing anything of the 

 sport. Mr. George Beard, Mr. Johnstone, jun. ; the 

 Messrs. Wyman, Mr. Davenport, Mr. Keaneof Patcham, 

 Mr. Gassiot, Mr. Gregson, Mr. Crowther, Mr. Tamplin, 

 Mr. Johnstone, sen. ; Mr. Pearse, Mr. A. Dupont, and 

 many others who are in the habit of hunting regu- 

 larly with the Brighton Harriers. 



A very few minutes elapsed before a hare jumped 

 up and went away at a rattling pace over the 

 plough, which rode fairly well ; the scent, however, 

 was so bad that, after running puss for some ten 

 minutes through the mist and rain, the wind blow- 

 ing fitfully the while, we lost her in a patch of 

 furze at the foot of a tremendously steep hill. Mr. 

 Dewe patiently tried to pick up the scent; but, 

 though his clever hounds did their best, they failed 

 to get on her line, and we moved off in search of 

 another. Soon " So-ho ! " is heard, and Mr. Dupont 

 rides up, and points out the place where puss is 

 snugly ensconced, and the hounds being brought 

 to the spot, she started from her form, and scuttled 

 away at a racing pace, with the pack close to her 

 heels, running her in view for several minutes. No 

 easy matter was it to ride to hounds at the pace 

 they were going up and down these steep hills, 



