124 HUNTING TOURS. 



as Gloucestershire, as it is well known the 

 past and present generation of the noble fami- 

 lies of Beaufort and Berkeley have hunted 

 the greater portion of the county with 

 princely liberality a vast number of years. 

 Mr. Colmore hunts the Cotswold side, and 

 during the time he has been master he has 

 gained universal popularity and its concomi- 

 tant, support. As instance of all this, the 

 Duke of Beaufort's hounds, during the season 

 of 1861 and '62, killed ninety-one brace of 

 foxes ; but as half his Grace's country is in 

 Wiltshire, I will assign a moiety of the foxes 

 to that county. Lord Fitzhardinge's hounds 

 killed eighty-five brace, Mr. Colmore's forty- 

 nine and a-half brace, the Vale of White 

 Horse thirty-two and a-half, and supposing 

 sixteen brace appertained to Gloucestershire, 

 and the remainder to Wiltshire, there is a total 

 of about one hundred and ninety brace, which I 

 think exceeds the number of foxes killed in 

 any other county of equal extent in England; 

 and, what is more, they are not exhausted, 

 as there are fourteen more litters in the Duke 

 of Beaufort's country than there were the 

 previous year. 



