SUSSEX 



Having a great desire to see Colonel Wyndham's hounds, I took up 

 my quarters at Brighton on the 23rd of February, and on the 24th 

 went to Newtimber House, the fixture for the day, six miles from 

 Brighton on the London road. 



The signal for meeting in our grandfathers' time was when " the 

 light morning star, day's harbinger, came dancing from the east, 

 and fled at the approach of Aurora." Colonel Wyndham's fixture 

 was for eleven ; and about twenty minutes before our grandfathers' 

 dinner hour the hounds arrived, and by the time they were in their 

 second bottle we found our fox. They came up at a brisk trot, and 

 appeared by the horses as if they had not let the grass grow under 

 their feet in their road from the kennel — the distance from which 

 was about nine miles. They retired into a small field by the side of 

 the road, whilst Colonel Wyndham changed his horse, and then 

 proceeded to draw. The Colonel was mounted on a very clever 

 Octavius mare, and his two whippers-in rode thorough-bred ones : 

 in short, all looked locll-hred together. There was a large field out, 

 upwards of two hundred horsemen being present. 



From the great reputation this pack had acquired — from the pace 

 they carry a scent over a light country, and the great pains that 

 have been taken in breeding them — I was very anxious to have a 

 sight of them. They seemed formed for speed, not deficient in 

 power, and abounding in good form and symmetry, though not 

 exceeding (generally) twenty-two inches in height ; they are very 

 handy in coming to horn, or halloo. I never saw this excelled. 

 These hounds also appear to be equally as good in covert as out of 

 it. There was one hound which instantly caught my eye as above 

 their standard, and on asking the whipper-in his name, he told me 

 it was Conqueror. I afterwards found it was no misnomer, for when 



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