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hound can lie on the cement when shut in the lodging- 

 house. 



" (5) I beheve Major Croker and Mr. Miles B. 

 Kennedy were two of the first ever to attempt hunting 

 a hare with basset hounds, about 1886. There were 

 no basset hounds in England prior to 1872, and 

 Lord Onslow, the late Sir Everett Millais, and Mr. 

 Krehl were three of their first admirers." 



Six good days with the Walhampton Basset Hounds. 

 (From Capt. Heseltine's Diary.) 



" On Saturday Sep. 24, 1892 (io| couples), met, 

 11-30, Hill Top Gate, Beaulieu. Found immediately 

 a three-part grown leveret ; raced her for 25 mins., 

 without a check, and killed her at Harley Pitts. Found 

 No. 2 Harley Pitts, hounds ran away from us ; they 

 ran straight to the Nodes, which they skirted, sinking 

 the valley thro' King's Hat Enclosure, crossed the 

 high road ; she jumped up close to Ipley River, and they 

 ran a circle by King's Hat Enclosure. She squatted 

 off a track and we had a long check. 



" We had been running i hr. 10 mins. and the point 

 was nearly four miles ; a forest keeper poked her out, 

 and 9 mins. later Radical rolled her over in the open 

 in Dibden Bottom, running game to the very end. 

 Who- Whoop ! 



" On Wedy. March 8, 1892, a blazing hot summer 

 day, met for a by-day, 1-30 p.m. at the Kennels, Ches- 

 terton, Cambridge. The ploughs raised a dust cloud, 

 as hounds ran over them ; we found a hare at Chester- 

 ton at 2-30 P.M. and hunted her to death at 5-25 p.m. 

 A small jack hare. 



" On Monday Sep. 17, 1894 (io| couples), met at 

 Walhampton. Found on Warborne and ran her to 



