Fox-huj^ting Past and Present 



H. H., the Silverton, the Southwold, the Tetcott, 

 and the Western are under joint management, 

 and one, the Farndale, is in the hands of a com- 

 mittee. I do not deal with the large number of 

 resignations and changes on the cards, ere next 

 season commences. 



As to opening days in the last season, I may record 

 the interesting fact that the Fenny Compton Wharf 

 meet was actually the seventy-fourth consecutive 

 opening fixture of the Bicester attended by that 

 staunch fox-hunter, Mr. Knott; w^hose memory 

 must therefore go back even to the days when 

 the first Mr. Tyrwhitt Drake hunted the country, 

 and no other than Will Goodall, of subsequent 

 Belvoir fame (sire of the equally illustrious "Will 

 the Second," twenty-one years huntsman to the 

 Pytchley), was turning hounds to Tom Wingfield. 

 This is an extraordinary fox-hunting record to 

 look back upon. 



Among those who last season greeted the new 

 Master of the Tedworth on his first day was 

 another unfailing Nimrod, Mr. J. T. Powell, of 

 Easton Royal, who has not missed an opening 

 meet in that country for sixty-two years, and 

 delights to recall the days when as a youth he 

 saw the celebrated Assheton Smith and his grey- 

 pie pack bring many a stout Wiltshire fox to 

 book. These veterans are always interesting to 



listen to, and Mr. Powell recounts the story of that 



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