FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 73 



described by the local papers in the following 

 account signed ''Sirius'* : 



'' 6th November 1877. The New Forest Fox- 

 hounds. — Red-letter days have been rare, if not 

 altogether unknown, with any packs of foxhounds 

 thus far in this somewhat remarkable, or rather 

 unremarkable, season. The run with the New 

 Forest, of which I am now going to endeavour to 

 give a description, if it did not occur on a day 

 which deserves the name of a red-letter one, must 

 at least be considered as extraordinary in more 

 senses than one, even if we eliminate the sensa- 

 tional element from it altogether. Let me first 

 point out that the New Forest Foxhounds are 

 kept at Furzey Lawn, near Lyndhurst, Hamp- 

 shire, and that the Master is Sir Reginald Graham, 

 who has for his whips Alfred Mandeville and 

 Walter Primmer. The nearest towns of approach 

 for intending visitors, of whom it is unreasonable 

 to expect there will be many after reading of 

 this run, are Southampton, Lymington, and 

 Ringwood, for the N. F. H. or New Forest Fox- 

 hounds. 



'' The meet was at the Vine Inn at Ower, when, 

 after time allowed for stragglers, and those who 

 have not learned the maxim concerning the early 

 bird and the worm, to join the rendezvous, the 

 order was given for a fast move for Embley. 

 There a find was soon effected, the difficulty of 

 discovering Reynard's whereabouts being sur- 

 mountable, even by human nostrils, so glorious 



