366 



HUNTING. 



FEN 



Fences, different ways of riding 

 at, 209 



Fitzhardinge, Earl, against loud- 

 voiced whippers-in, 146 



Fitzwilliam pack and country, 

 262 



Fordham, George, repudiation of 

 spurs by, 213 



Fortescue, Lord, 32 



Founder, 103 



Fownes, Thomas, an early 

 keeper of foxhounds, 28 



Fox, George Lane, his opinion 

 of hare-hunting, 83 



Foxhounds, first regular em- 

 ployment of, 28 ; dwarf, as 

 harriers, 74; drawing, 136; 

 losing scent, 139 ; accessible 

 to Londoners, 275 ; lists of, 

 in the United Kingdom, 322 



Fox-hunting, literary notices of, 

 24 ; how pursued in the last 

 century, 29 ; introduction of 

 present style of, 33 ; com- 

 parison of past and present, 

 34 ; the practical work of, 

 136; by moonlight, 186 ; from 

 London, 277 



Fox, traditionary enmity to the, 

 26 ; habits of the, 62 ; his 

 scent, 65 ; his behaviour before 

 hounds, 66 ; going to ground, 

 68 ; his trick of thrusting 

 another fox into the line, 70 ; 

 hand-reared cubs, 71 ; dietaiy, 

 ih. ; mange in, caused by horse- 

 flesh, 72 ; meeting a pack of 

 harriers, 75 ; alleged killing of 

 lambs by, ib., 154; protection 

 of game birds from, 73 ; pre- 

 dilection of, for bogs, 136; 

 chopping of, 138 ; coursed by 

 a dog during a run, 1 40 ; 



HAR 



habits of, in breaking covert,. 

 145 ; feeling of farmers to- 

 wards, 154 ; poultry-killing 

 propensity of, 155; construc- 

 tion of artificial earths for, 1 56 

 Freeby Wood, a famous meet at, 

 218 



Gardiner's 'Hare Hunting,' 

 20 ; reviles fox-hunting, 25 



' Gayman,' a queer-looking 

 hunter, 174 



Gelding, when first adopted in 

 England, 161 



George IH., stag-hunting by, 31 



George IV., at a run from 

 Aldermaston to Reading, 31 ; 

 at a famous run in the Cottes- 

 more country, 230 



Gillard, Frank, his remedy for 

 distemper in hounds, 127 



Glossary of hunting terms, 350 



Goodwood kennels, cost of, iic 



Goosey, fox-hunting aphorism 

 of, 139 



Grafton, Duke of, pack of, 259 



Grantham, 218 



Greene, Squire, 198, 201 



Grooming, 107 



Grooms, ignorance in, 91 



Gurney, Richard, remarkable 

 leap of, 181 



Hands, 204 



Harbourer, work of the, 41 



Hare-hunting, literary notices 

 of, 23 ; instructions for, 79 ; 

 season for, 82 ; the closing 

 scene of, ib. ; Mr. George 

 Lane Fox's opinion of, ^t^ ; 

 with beagles on foot, ib. 



Harriers, no distinct breed, 74 ; 



