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been a great hunting family. Sir Thomas Mostyn, 

 who hunted the Bicester and Warden Hill foxhounds 

 from 1800 to 1831, is still remembered in Warwick- 

 shire, Northants, and Oxfordshire, and the Masters 

 of this new Flintshire pack are pretty certain to provide 

 good sport in the country round Mostyn Hall. The 

 Plas Machynlleth is yet another private pack, hunting 

 in North Wales, and owned by Lord Henry Vane 

 Tempest. The hounds, numbering ten couples of 

 eighteen-inch pure-bred harriers, take the field twice 

 a week, with David Hughes as huntsman. The Plas 

 Machynlleth is chiefly a mountain country, with a 

 good deal of wall and fence to negotiate. It lies in 

 Montgomeryshire and Cardiganshire, and has an area 

 of some ten miles by five. A cob is described as the 

 best nag for the district, but the foot-hunter can usually 

 see almost as much of the sport as the mounted man. 

 Lord Henry Vane Tempest may be said to do his 

 duty manfully in the way of providing sport for his 

 neighbours. In addition to hunting hare on Tuesdays 

 and Fridays with this pack, he maintains a small pack 

 of ten couples of hounds which pursue the fox on 

 Mondays and Thursdays, the same huntsman officiating 

 with both packs. 



Mr. Vaughan Pryse, of Bwlchbychan, Llanybyther, 

 South Wales, is one of the oldest supporters of harriers, 

 I suppose, in the Principality. Now in his eighty-third 

 year, he not only masters a pack of harriers, which he 

 established so far back as 1858, but hunts them himself, 

 and has done so for forty-three seasons. This is 

 something like enthusiasm for the noble science ! 

 Mr. Vaughan Pryse's country, which lies in the shires 

 of Cardigan and Carmarthen, consists of pasture, plough, 

 and moorland. It has, unhappily, been of late years 

 sadly spoiled by wire and wire netting, which latter 



