68 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



The following was one of our good gallops in 

 my second season : On the i6th November 1875 

 met at Lyndhurst Road Station. There was a 

 large gathering of the hunt, it being a very fine 

 morning. We went first to Deer Leap Enclosure, 

 which was blank ; then to Buscots, where a fox 

 was on foot immediately. We ran him hard 

 through Irons Hill and away over the open ; 

 turning to the right he pointed for Pond Head, 

 and on nearly to the Brockenhurst Road, where 

 he was headed and turned back across to the 

 rifle-butts, and we killed him by the police 

 station near Bolton's Bench, after about thirty- 

 five minutes, and a capital pace all the time. 

 The fox was a well-known customer (nicknamed 

 " Dr. Kenealy '') which had afforded many a 

 run in Mr. Standish's time, but on this occasion 

 twenty-two and a half couple of the '' Fast 

 Ladies '' were too much for the old stager, whose 

 brush I gave to the Hon. Francis Denison 

 (son of Lord Londesborough) ; on a very fast 

 pony he rode well, and saw the end of this sharp 

 gallop. 



I think the best day I ever had in the Forest, 

 or anywhere else, was on the 14th February 1876, 

 advertised at Brockenhurst Bridge at eleven. 

 Snow was falling heavily, and a lot of it on the 

 ground early in the morning. I never dreamed 



