172 FACT AGAINST FICriON. 



this scourge on all speedy action haunts particular 

 sites, that I have seen proved by tlie removal of 

 greyhounds from one kennel to another, as instanced 

 in the Greenway kennel, the late Mr. W. Lawrence's, 

 when, on account of the kennel lameness, it was 

 removed from the Cotswold site to the Vale at the 

 Greenway below. At the time when I used to be 

 there, it was, though not to a very great extent, 

 in the kennels at Berkeley Castle ; but though my 

 young hounds came direct from Berkeley to me, 

 I never had the lameness in my kennel at Har- 

 rold Hall. Neither had it ever come to my 

 previous kennel when I kept my stag hounds in 

 my father's old kennel at Cranford. 



Here follows the only fact, in my experience, 

 which seemed to afford a remedy ; and that I arrived 

 at dui'ing my residence at Beacon Lodge, in Hamp- 

 shire, when the kindest of all royal princes, the late 

 Duke of Cambridge, then ranger of the New Forest, 

 assigned to me the privilege of hunting the otter 

 and coursing the hare, which immunities were not 

 included in the usual licence to shoot game. 



Having ascertained that there were a few otters 

 occasionally in the Forest streams, I sent to 

 George Carter, at Mr. Ashton Smith's kennels, 



