The Grove. 105 



THE GROVE.* 



If the Grove as a country does not typify all the 

 rapid requirements of the modern school of fox- 

 hunting, the Grove Hounds (Lord Galway^s) have 

 long held high rank, and been a source from which 

 the pack of nearly every flying country has derived 

 assistance. Lord Galway's pack, is, in fact, one of 

 the oldest in the kingdom. On the late Mr. 

 Foljambe first taking hounds, he purchased it from 

 Lord Scarboro^ — ^in the year 1825 or 1826. Lord 

 Galway (father of the present) became Master in 

 1858, on the health of the present Lord Scarborough 

 failing; and finally bought the hounds from Mr. 

 Foljambe in 1866. He continued to hunt the country 

 till his death in 1 876, when his §on the present Lord 

 Galway took over the Mastership and the horn. The 

 Grove Hounds are quite as celebrated for their 

 working power as for their rich quahty — and both 

 virtues are carefully maintained as ever (a short note 

 on their recent breeding will be found farther on). 



But it is with a Country rather than its Hounds, 

 the present series of sketches has to do — that the 



* Vide Stanford's " Himting Map," Sheet 9, and Hobson's 

 Foxhunting Atlas. 



