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chase is scarce, they have a day or two with the 

 '' carted'' deer. 



There was a very interesting old hunting story 

 Lord Wihon writes, in his "Sports and Pursuits of 

 the English," that, not until 1750 w^ere hounds 

 •entered solely to fox; but against his statement 

 must be placed that of Charles J. Apperley, who 

 died in 1843, ^^^ ^^ favourably known under his no^n. 

 de plume of '' Nimrod." He says that an ancestor of 

 Lord Arundel of Wardour had a pack of foxhounds 

 at the close of the seventeenth century, thus about 

 coeval with the Sussex and Leicestershire already 

 named ; and the same reliable writer proceeds to say 

 that, remaining in the same family, they hunted in 

 Wiltshire and Hampshire until 1782, when they 

 passed to Mr. Meynell, a name historical in fox- 

 hound annals. Another such pack was that of Mr. 

 Thomas Fownes, who was hunting from Stapleton in 

 Dorsetshire very early in the eighteenth century; but 

 the Charlton Hunt and Squire Boothby's hounds 

 had before this been entered to fox, and, with our 

 present knowledge, with them must rest the credit 

 of being the earliest packs of foxhounds in this 

 country. 



Mr. Fownes' pack went to Mr. Bowes, of Streat- 

 lam, Yorkshire; and the Belvoir hounds kennelled at 

 Belvoir Castle, near Grantham, with Sir Gilbert 



