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room, so made the best of my way to my hack, and after ten days' 

 repose was able to shew again. Mr. Burrell rode Vagabond, 

 Brother to Wanderer, and a charming hunter he appears to be. 



I have reason to beheve the county of Sussex produces the only 

 instance in the sporting world of two brothers, each keeping a pack 

 of fox-hounds ; but so it is. Colonel Henry Wyndham hunts the 

 western side of the county. 



Colonel Wyndham has two kennels — one at his own house, from 

 which he hunts his Chichester country ; and the other at Finden, 

 three miles from Worthing on the Horsham road. The latter was 

 built for the hounds which hunted this country when Mr. Newnham 

 had the management of them. They are both very good and 

 healthy. 



It may be expected that I say something of the condition of 

 Colonel Wyndham's hounds. On the first day that I saw them, they 

 looked a little the worse, as all hounds do, for the preceding week's 

 sport, w4iich had been very severe ; but they were even in their 

 flesh, and not lighter than they should be for a flying country, which 

 they so often hunt in, and where wind and speed are everything. 

 On the last day I was wdth them I thought there was a beautiful 

 pack out, and having had an easier week, they looked very bright 

 and well. 



The origin of this kennel I found to be as follows : — The Earl of 

 Egremont bred them, wuth the assistance of a Yorkshireman by the 

 name of Luke, now dead, but whose memory still lives in Sussex, 

 and whose word (as it ought to have been) was gospel on anything 

 relating to hounds. The Noble Earl, getting slack, made a present 

 of them to the late Duke of Eichmond, and the Duke gave them to 

 the King. Old Luke, however — a good judge — kept some of the 

 best blood, until, as he expressed himself, " his young masters would 

 want them;" from which is descended the pack I hunted with, 

 which I understand is of ten years' growth. In the Chichester 

 country, I hear, they have a superabundance of foxes, and hunt very 

 late in consequence. 



I liked the appearance of Colonel Wyndham's first whipper-in. 

 His name is Eobert Bartlett ; and though with a strong cross of the 

 harrier in him, I thought he knew well what he w^as about in the 



