70 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



and Water from the pen of '' Cerise," a writer 

 well known at that time : — 



'' On Saturday, March nth, the meet was at 

 New Park. Sir Reginald Graham has again 

 shown us grand sport with a Brockenhurst 

 fox, this time with the dog pack. After a 

 longish draw, not finding till three o'clock, a 

 splendid fox went away from New Copse, through 

 Perry Wood, taking a good line for Brockenhurst 

 Manor, but, for reasons best known to himself, 

 turned sharp to the right across the railway, to 

 Whitley, circling back through New Copse, Lady 

 Cross, Frame, and Hawk Hill, on to Beaulieu 

 Heath, heading right away for Norley, across 

 Norley Farm, on to the Heath again, the hounds 

 rolling over their fox dead beat in the open, within 

 fifty yards of Norley Wood. The run lasted one 

 hour and a half, with hardly a check. The 

 country was terribly heavy, and the pace from 

 Hawk Hill very fast — in fact, I think, quite as 

 severe as our run from Brockenhurst on February 

 14th with the ' ladies,' when we killed near 

 Denny Lodge. Out of a field of about thirty, 

 only seven were up at the finish, namely, the 

 Master, Lord Henry Scott, M.P., Sir Claude de 

 Crespigny, Messrs. Powell-Montgomery, Duplessis, 

 Emms, and the second whip. Since the melan- 

 choly death of his kennel huntsman, Sir Reginald 

 is only able to take out one whip, Charles Hawtin, 

 temporarily doing duty at the kennels. At 

 our Hunt meeting to-day (14th), to the great 



