84 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



the hunt horses, as I preferred to start with a 

 fresh stud of my own. 



We began cub-hunting on the i8th September, 

 and during that season of 1879 ^^^ ^^^^ we 

 hunted ninety-four days and killed eighty-two 

 foxes up to 17th April, but we were stopped by 

 frost twenty-nine days, and it was only a moderate 

 season . We had two or three good points, however, 

 one of them on the 24th November, a straight 

 eight-and-a-half-mile point from Fargo to Wylye, 

 and killed. At the same time another fox went 

 away from Fargo with only a whipper-in and a 

 few couples who caught him after a scurry over 

 the downs. This was a very good day's sport, 

 and the hounds killed four foxes during that 

 day. On the 5th January there was a nine-mile 

 point, with a fox from Round Down, near Everley, 

 and we killed him in the middle of the West 

 Woods. That morning we also had a sharp 

 gallop with a fox from Pewsey gorse, and caught 

 him at Upavon after twenty-five minutes. 



My agreement with the country was to hunt 

 four days a week, but I generally found enough 

 hounds to make up a mixed pack, which I hunted 

 myself on a bye-day, either Wednesday or Friday, 

 and on these occasions Jack Fricker did not 

 come out. 



Some of the cub-hunting was delightful in 



