FOX AND HOUND 



New Mills near Whitchurch. The whole chase is 

 computed to be upwards of forty miles as the crow 

 flies, and with scarcely a check.' Mention of bag 

 foxes recalls a comical story told of Tom Hills, the 

 famous Old Surrey huntsman. He was carrying 

 home, in the capacious pocket of his blouse, a fox he 

 had been sent to buy in Leadenhall market. Stopped 

 by a highwayman on Streatham Common, he respond- 

 ed to the demand for his money by bidding his 

 assailant help himself from the pocket which con- 

 tained the fox : and while the highwayman was be- 

 wailing his severely bitten fingers, Hills made his 

 escape. 



Long runs are frequently reported in the Sporting 

 Magazine during the first decades of the nineteenth 

 century. On Friday, 7th December 1804, Mr. 

 Corbet's hounds found near Wellesbourne pastures, 

 ran their fox for three hours with one five minutes' 

 check, and killed — nay, 'most delightfully ran into' 

 him at Weston, about a mile from Broadway : a six- 

 teen-mile point. Of a field of nearly a hundred 

 ' eager amateurs of fox-hunting,' fifteen were up or 

 in view at the kill. 



Nimrod's classic, best known as his 'Quarterly' 

 essay, by reason of its publication in that Review in 

 1832, gives us as vivid and spirited a picture of fox- 

 hunting as we could wish : — 



* . . . Let us suppose ourselves to have been at 

 Ashby Pasture, in the Quorn country, with Mr. 



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