226 CAPT. Johnstone's hounds and country. 



to his son, the Hon. Capt. Johnstone of the 

 Second Life Guards. 



Captain Johnstone is very popular with all 

 classes of society in the country over which he 

 presides with so much success, and the prestige 

 of the hunt is safe in such able hands as his. On 

 the flags he is facile jyrincejjs, he is well versed 

 in the pedigrees of his own and other packs of 

 hounds, whilst to say that he can hold his own 

 with the hard-riding field who hunt with him is 

 suflicient testimony to his ability as a horseman. 



For some years Dick Russell, a fine horseman, 

 skilful huntsman, and first-rate sportsman, carried 

 the horn, but he retired at the end of the season 

 of 1886-87, and Tom Pedley, from the Tickham, 

 succeeded him. The latter is very quick and gets 

 across the difficult country well. He commenced 

 very favourably, for notwithstanding the diffi- 

 culties with which a man has to contend when 

 coming into a fresh country ; difficulties, too, 

 which were accentuated by the almost unprece- 

 dented length of inauspicious weather which 

 characterized the season of 1887-88, he showed 

 excellent sport, and accounted well for his foxes. 

 The hounds are turned to him by Dick Sher- 

 wood, who commenced under the late Mr. Thomas 

 Andrew as whip, and who was several seasons 

 with the Cleveland Hounds as whip and huntsman. 



The entry is not a very large one, consisting as 

 it does of three couples of bitches and three-and-a- 



