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Sir Reginald Graham, the new master, has no bad 

 prospect before him. Fricker, the huntsman, has — in 

 one capacity or another — been nearly half a century in 

 the Tedworth Kennels — which, it may be mentioned, 

 are about half a dozen miles from the station of Grate- 

 ley on the London and South-Western line. Tedworth 

 itself, stands so exactly on the border line, between 

 Hants and Wilts that (as every will-making lawyer has 

 heard) Assheton Smith, in dictating his last testament, 

 bequeathed House and surrounding estate as being all 

 situate in Hants. The House went as willed ; but the 

 heir-at-law stepped in, on the plea that much of the 

 estate was in Wilts, substantiated his claim and gained 

 possession. 



The Tedworth Hounds take the field four days in the 

 week, viz., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 

 — for which number they have ample scope in their 

 extensive range of country. Monday is more 

 especially for the Downs, and the west of the country : 

 and the meets are — Woodford Bridge, from which they 

 draw up the brook side towards Amesbury, where Sir 

 E. Antrobus has good coverts : High Post, for the 

 gorses on the Downs, with Amesbury to fill up the 

 day : while Porton Firs and Amesbury are named for 

 the same draws. Netheravon and Newfoundland are 

 altogether for the open country up the stream, and for 

 the patches of gorse on the Downs. From Elbarrow, 

 on Netherdon Down, they go to the gorses of the 

 Downs along the border by the South Wilts Country. 

 From Everleigh there are nice coverts near, and plenty 

 of foxes, at Sir John Astley^s. Indeed, all the Down 

 country is very fairly off for the requisite animal. 



