2::; 2 LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



L. Felly, Mr. J. Sands, Mr. D. P. Sellar, Mr. and Mrs. W. Sewell, Mr. G. 

 Sewell, Mr. D. Smith, Mr. R. Smith, Mr. A. J. Tweed, Mr. W. Westall, 

 Capt. H. F. Wilson, Mr. A. E. Woodward, Mr. Helme, Capt. Ricardo, 

 Messrs. F. and S. Pratt, Mr. Miles, Mr. Patchett, Q.C., Mr. Lawrence, 

 Messrs. Avila, Crosse, Morris, Tippler. 



The little dark bay Irish horse "Victor," standing- 15.2, 

 purchased from Mr. Alexander Ward, Hon. Sec. of the Essex 

 Union Hounds, upon which Mr. Sands is here depicted, may be 

 taken as a fair type of the class of animal upon which he has 

 always gone so straight with hounds. The following lines 



John Sands on "Victor" 



from Mr. Bevan's poem of "Matching Green" o-ive a o-ood 



insight of his 

 knocked down 



:Indly qualities. He had been ridden into, and 



" And Johnny Sands, no ruffian's charge 



His genuine pluck could shake. 

 When prostrate by that cruel blow 



He lay but half awake. 

 Men say they heard his kindly lips 



Utter no other sounds 

 Than, ' Friends, don't let me keep you here, 



Go on, and join the hounds." 



The late rains had fairly settled the ground, and by the time we reached 

 Mr. Pemberton Barnes' coverts only one opinion was held, viz., that on 

 such a day there must be a scent ; and hearts beat high with expectation 



