6o FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



The field was the most numerous and fashionable 

 ever remembered, even by those who carry their 

 recollections back to the '' deer days/' when the 

 Forest was the '' happy hunting-ground," and the 

 perfect paradise of all true sportsmen. The 

 pack started at half -past twelve, and the departure 

 from the meet presented a sight rarely seen, 

 and which will never be forgotten by those who 

 witnessed it. The weather was of the finest, 

 though somewhat too hot for hunting ; still, it 

 tended to render the day thoroughly enjoyable 

 to all present. The hounds were taken to the 

 enclosure adjoining New Copse, from whence a 

 fox was quickly halloed across the railway into 

 Park Hill Enclosure. He ran first as if for Stubby, 

 but, being headed by foot people, turned to the 

 left, and came on to Bulmer Lawn at the Brocken- 

 hurst end of it ; then bearing to the right, went 

 as if for New Park, but turned before reaching 

 the road, and, running parallel with it, went 

 into Park Hill Enclosure again at the Lyndhurst 

 end. He came quickly out and went into Park 

 grounds, where he dodged about for some time, 

 and although viewed once or twice dead-beat, 

 he managed to get to ground, or into a drain 

 in the cover adjoining Pond Head, and was lost. 

 A second fox was not found until five in the 

 afternoon in Ipley Gorse, when he ran down 

 Ipley Water, nearly to Hatchet Gate, turned to 

 the right, and going through the adjoining covers 

 ran up Culverly Water, and passed Culverly 

 Farm, crossed the Beaulieu Road, and running 



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