8o Modern Dogs. 



likewise have thirty couples of entered hounds, and 

 so have the Surrey, whose country is round about 

 Redhill, which, being pretty handy for the Lon- 

 doner, usually produces larger meets of riding men 

 than some of the neighbouring farmers like. 



There is a small pack and a very old one that 

 still hunts the New Forest ; and a capital centre 

 for the visitor to work from is Lyndhurst or Brocken- 

 hurst. Mr. F. Lovell, the master, is out two days a 

 week with his fifteen couples of hounds, and many 

 of the runs he gives, especially when such take 

 place in the roughest country of the hunt, may 

 remind the West Countryman of one of the hardest 

 bursts with his favourite Devon and Somerset. 



