HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 6i 



home from there, twenty miles, and thoroughly 

 wet, but Norse came home very gay. The last 

 day out with our hounds this season. 



Note. — I feel sure Mr. Hilton must have 

 been very good company during his twenty 

 miles ride. It was a most enjoyable day, in 

 spite of the rain, the only regret being it was the 

 last day of the season, and hunting clothes and 

 everything connected therewith had to be put 

 away for so many months. I once heard a very 

 ardent sportsman remark, when saying good- 

 night, on the last day of the season, " I wish I 

 could go to bed and to sleep, and not wake up 

 till the next cubbing season begins." 



November 12th. Thursday. Latchingdon. 



Dull, foggy day, small field out. Found in 

 Lyle Hall Wood, and ran with a good scent 

 through Shoreham Hall, then bore to the left 

 to Chas. Clarke's, on to Wrights Leys and Star 

 Grove, and worked slowly up to Hawes Wood, 

 time one hour fifteen minutes. Afterwards 

 found in Wright's Leys, ran to Pantile, and back 

 then to Fambridge Hall, over the hill to Pace- 

 frit, on through Purleigh Round Bush, and lost 

 by Purleigh pump, both runs being very good, 

 and not such heavy riding as we sometimes get. 

 December 3rd. Thursday. Stow Bullock. 



Dull, drizzling day. Found in Fambridge 

 Hall, ran through Brook Mead to Pantile, then 

 to Wrights Leys, by the Rise to Purleigh How 

 Wood, where we lost, the scent being very bad. 

 Took a line again out of Fambridge Hall by 



