I>A_RT V^. 



THE OLD SURREY.* 



In the year 1750 Mr. Gobsall kept foxhounds at 

 Bermondsey — on the site of the premises and wharf 

 now in possession of the Messrs. Dudin. The remains 

 of the Kennels and stables are still to be seen ; and the 

 pack is said to have had an uninterrupted existence 

 ever since. No wonder that the Old Surrey was its 

 title^ long prior even to the appearance on the scene of 

 the most immortal Jorrocks. 



Gradually pushed out by the relentless encroach- 

 ment of brick and mortar, the Old Surrey Hunt has 

 been driven farther and farther from the bank of the 

 Thames, till now it can bring the sound of hound- 

 music no nearer London than the outskirts of Croydon 

 and Bromley ; and the citizen who would jaunt in 

 scarlet to the Surrey hills can no longer mount his 

 hunter in Broad-street, but must either take the same 

 steam covert hack which the worshipful hero aforesaid 

 reserved solely for the " cut-^em-down countries/^ or 

 else make a suburban residence his base alike for 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheet 22, and Hobson's 

 Foxhunting Atlas. 



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