The Old Berkeley, 119 



Missenden, Hyde Heatli, Hampden Cliurcli, Wen- 

 dover Hall, Chequers Court and Saunderton. 



In the extreme north of their country is included a 

 small corner of the Yale of Aylesbury ; and hounds 

 are taken there a few times during the season. But 

 in the days when the Earl of Lonsdale hunted the 

 country, it was the regular custom of the ^^ Old Lord '' 

 to meet in the Yale once a week with his " harriers '^ 

 as he called them. These were nothing more or 

 less than a pack of dwarf foxhounds; and in front 

 of them he was wont to turn down a bag fox that had 

 been regularly conditioned and trained in a yard at 

 home. In this way, with both Jim and Goddard Mor- 

 gan successively as huntsmen, there was many a merry 

 gallop over the Yale : and familiar to every Hertford- 

 shire man are the lines of the late Mr. Wm. Reid (so 

 well known at that time with Lord Dacre^s hounds), 

 beginning 



There's a noble Earl of antient name ; 

 He hunts the fox, but he likes it tame. 



And that there was no deception about the proceeding, 

 but that it was carried on in the frankest fashion, 

 may be gathered from the dialogue described as 

 takiug place before the assembled field — culmina- 

 ting in 



Says the noble earl to the elder Brown — 

 " Open the box and turn him down !" 



The Uxbridge neighbourhood is attainable by the 

 Great Western Eailway ; and is nearest of all to the 

 actual Harrow Yale. In fact, from Ruislip Wood or 

 Oxley Wood is nowadays the only chance of a spurt 



