CHAPTER TV. 



''What did you think of Wherwell Wood, old friend, 

 as a place for hunting, for you must have known it 

 pretty well ? " 



"Well, sir, Wherwell Wood were a very nice place to 

 make young hounds, at all times when it had fair play 

 and been let alone, it was a fine place for hunting, 

 and would alwaj^s hold a fox, and after Christmas 

 when foxes began to travel and move about, we always 

 had a plenty as came from other places, and some very 

 good runs I've had from there, for, as you know, sir, 

 I was always there, every Wednesday. Well, 3^ou see, 

 sir, as soon as I got into the wood and began to cheer 

 'em a bit, if there were an old travelling fox near, as 

 soon as he heard my voice or the horn he would think 

 ' Well, here's old Carter come out arter me and I must 

 be off or he'll catch me,' and away he'd go at once, and 

 as soon as the hounds got settled to him, away they 



