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countiy during a wet season, whilst availing them- 

 selves of the privilege of following the hounds over 

 the cultivated portions of the Downs. 



Mr. Dewe is fortunate in having so good a kennel 

 huntsman as Sherwood. A sporting-looking man is 

 his assistant, a capital horseman, and thoroughly 

 good at the duties appertaining to his post. No 

 hounds can be brought into the field in a more 

 healthy condition, and it is evident from their 

 appearance that the greatest attention is paid to 

 them, and a fact greatly tending to this state of 

 things is the position of the new kennels. 



Formerly the hounds were located in a neighbour- 

 hood redolent of dust-heaps, and surrounded by small 

 tenements, the rapid extension of the town having 

 overtaken them ; now they are occupying a place in 

 the open, which cannot fail to be advantageous. 



During so much of the season as has been avail- 

 able, these hounds have invariably shown good sport 

 when the weather has permitted hunting. The 

 Jack-hares are now strong, and for the next week or 

 two anyone paying a visit to Brighton will yet have 

 an opportunity of judging whether I have given a 

 too favourable report. I admit to having a great 

 partiality to Brighton, and though I have heard 

 people speak contemptuously of a locality where 

 there is so little fencing, and merely open downs to 

 gallop across, yet I have set them down as belong- 

 ing to the class who would sooner follow a red 

 herring or an aniseeded rag across country (provided 

 they could race and jump) than they would ride 

 through the prettiest of hunting runs. 



At last, winter seems to have gone for good, and 



