1 74 HUNTING TOURS. 



Tackley are as well cared for by Mrs. Evetts 

 as they were during her late husband's time. 

 Tarwood, on Mr. Harcourt's estate, is in- 

 variably well tenanted, under the supervision 

 of his steward, Mr. John Lord, a staunch 

 friend, whose hospitalities are extended to 

 men, horses, and hounds, whenever they visit 

 that extremity of the country. 



It was with great regret I heard in a distant 

 quarter of a keeper having been discharged for 

 want of due respect to the foxes, and that his 

 master, with charitable forbearance and kind- 

 ness, on taking the man again into his services, 

 found himself deceived, and compelled finally 

 to carry into effect his first intention. The pub- 

 lication of this inefficient keeper's name would 

 be a salutary caution to him and others of his 

 craft, and would be the best means of checking 

 the reprehensible system of fox destruction. 



The antecedents of this country are ancient 

 and of a truly aristocratic order. During 

 the latter portion of the eighteenth century 

 the Lord Foley of that day introduced a very 

 superior pack of hounds into the county of 

 Oxford; but it must be observed this was 

 a predecessor of the noble lord who hunted 

 the Quorn and Worcestershire countries. 



