290 Hark Away, 



found the Honourable Ralph Nevill, the Master of 

 the West Kent ; Mr. Barclay Field of Ashurst Park, 

 Mr. Fitch Kemp, Mr. Jackson and Mr. Walter 

 Jackson, Messrs. Russell, Greig, etc. 



The hounds were then thrown into an adjacent 

 cover, and promptly a view-halloo was heard, with a 

 musical chorus from the eager hounds, as they rattled 

 their fox through the extensive covers. Reynard, 

 however, declined to leave his favourite haunts in 

 the woodland wild, and finally went to ground ; but 

 his cunning availed him not, for a spade was 

 employed to dig him out from his hiding-place, and 

 he was soon transferred to a sack, to be turned down 

 in due time before the pack. Then we moved 

 away to another cover hard by, and again the cry 

 of " Tally-ho ! tally-ho ! " was heard, and after a 

 little while a fine old fox broke away, running 

 across three or four large fields, entering a deep rail- 

 way cutting, and then making his way into the 

 station yard, where he was headed and hustled 

 about; but at last succeeded in getting up the 

 slopes of the line, and went away for about fifteen 

 minutes at a rattling pace over the grass fields^ 

 following the course of the river, the fences being 

 stiff, with sundry tall flights of rails, that took some 

 negotiating. Finally, we killed our fox in the cover 

 at the back of " The Franks." This was a merry 

 spin whilst it lasted, and had the fox not been 

 badgered and bothered at the railway station, he 

 would not have succumbed so easily. Then we 

 trotted away to Lullingstone Park, the seat of Sir 

 William Hart Dyke, who had joined us, where the 

 fox that had been dug out was turned down ; and 



