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hoands — cliaracter of the hoands — Bob Oldaker — extraordinary leap 

 by Sir H. Peyton and Mr. Becher — the Duke of Beaufort's hounds — 

 Philip Payne as a huntsman — brilliancy of condition of the pack, and 

 runs with them — Mr. Webb — visit to Sir Loftus Otway — Colonel 

 Berkeley's hounds and country — the Warwickshire — Jack Wood the 

 huntsman — Lord Middleton's method of huating a country — visit to Mr. 

 John Lucy — antiquity of his family — Mr. Knightley — Mr. Shirley- — 

 Mr. Payne of Selby — Lord Anson's Atherstone country, and characters 

 in the Hunt — Billy Breton with Mr. Adderley's hounds — Mr. Adderley 

 a second Allivorthy — anecdoi^e of Shaw — Mr. Edmund Peel as a rider — 

 Robert Thurlow — Lord Anson as a rider and huntsman — anecdotes of 

 Mr. Leech of Garden — visit to the Quorn — accident to Mr. Osbaldeston 

 • — his devotion to fox-hunting — the Widmerpool country — larking 

 between Mr. Maher and Captain Standon — the Duke of Rutland's 

 hounds — Goosey the huntsman — Quorndon Hall, and the Quorn 

 country and kennels — Mr. Osbaldeston as a master of hounds — changes 

 in Leicestershire — imposing assemblage at the start — proofs of nerve 

 exemplified by Captain Stuart, Mr. George Marriott, Jack Shirley, Mr. 

 White — Melton Mowbray — the Old Club — Mr. John Musters — Mr. 

 Thomas Edge — singular anecdote of a hunter called Gayman — descrip- 

 tion of the formidable ox-fences, "doubles," brooks, thorn fences, 

 favourite coverts — Mr. Cradock's artificial coverts, and elegant com- 

 pliments paid to him — Mr. Oldacre's gorse-coverts — Mr. Munday's in 

 .the Seggs-hill country — extraordinary' shooting of Captain Ross — 

 crack riders in Leicestershire — Mr. Maxse, Sir Harry Goodricke, Mr. 

 Holyoake, Lord Plymouth, Mr. F. Grant, the Earl of Kintore, Captain 

 Ross, Captain Standon, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn — death of Tom 

 Penn, Sir Watkin's pad-boy ......... 123 



A FORTNIGHT IN THE NEW FOREST. 



Mr. Nicoll as master of the hounds, both in field and kennel — the country — 

 anecdote of Mr. Chudleigh Haynes — Joe the whipper-in — Sir Francis 

 Burdett as a rider to hounds — Mr. Harbin — the lions of the Forest — 

 Sir Hussey Vivian an excellent friend to fox-hunting, with trophies to 

 his well-earned fame — Mr. Vivian (father of Sir Hussey) — anecdotes 

 of Mr. Butler — concluding acknowledgments to the Sporting World . 171 



THE SECOND TOUR, 



Embracing Accounts of the Warwickshire Sounds under Mr. Hay — 

 Mr. Boycott's — the Shropshire under Sir Bellingham Graham — 

 the Cheshire under Sir Henry Mainivaring — Sir Richard Pideston's — 

 the Northamptonshire under Mr. Musters. 



The Duke of Beaufort's hounds — the Warwickshire — Ufton Wood — Mrs. 

 Shakerley on her splendid horse Golden Ball — Marquis Herrera — Mr. 

 Hay, his hounds and men^Will Boxall the whipper-in — Lord Anson — 

 Leamington — Major Moray — Mr. Boycott's establishment — Shrewsbury 



