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shape, with, the advantage of now having its kennels 

 almost exactly in the middle of the country. 



The C. & H. is a country decidedly in favour with 

 the Londoners : for, while it is well outside the realms 

 of Cockueydom and shares none of the disadvantages 

 under which so many suburban packs suffer, it is 

 yet easy of access and is able to offer a great deal of 

 genuine sport. It is a fair — if not a rapid — scenting 

 country : is well off for foxes (at least in all its best 

 districts) ; and owns a capital working pack. Since 

 Col. Calvert took over the hounds — a dozen years ago 

 — he has maintained the numbers (some fifty couple) 

 almost entirely by means of Mr. Lane Fox^s annual 

 young draft fi^om Bramham, with the result that the 

 driving quaHties and cleanness of shape for which that 

 pack is now so famous are observable with the C. & H. 

 Kennels and hounds are the property of the Hunt : 

 and the Kennels, with proportionate stabling, are 

 extremely neatly built, and well situated close to the 

 station of West Grinstead. The 8 a.m. train from 

 Victoria will land you at Horsham before ten 

 o'clock, and in time for most meets ; or you may use 

 the train for points further south, such as Steyning 

 or Arundel. It is on days when hounds are most 

 accessible from the metropolis that the C. & H. fields 

 are at their largest. Not that they are ever really 

 big — one hundred being_, perhaps, their outside com- 

 plement. In countries such as Sussex visitors from a 

 distance are never likely to assemble in sufficient 

 numbers as to interfere with sport — or even to make 

 it such a matter of difficulty as sometimes in the 

 Shires. Moreover — whatever may be the case here — 



