120 THE TRINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



when be killed seven hares; two of these, however, had either wires 

 round them or w^ere run into wires during the course of a run. The 

 writer has a dim recollection of a beagle being " wired " on this or 

 some other occasion, and more than once hares were picked up by 

 lurchers or shot in front of hounds by some ardent shootist, but 

 whether at Cambridge he cannot recollect. 



Hunt's energy and work soon made itself felt. In his first season, 

 1880-81, he accounted for 67 hares, and in the second he killed 88 

 and a fox. The latter was hunted by permission of some mounted 

 members of the Wheatlaud Hunt who were out, on its being found 

 on Mr. Hunt's estate at Plaish in that coantry,^ these gentlemen 

 wishing for a bit of a ride and never anticipating Hunt would 

 account for the fox. This, however, he did after a run of 1 hour and 

 40 minutes, the fox being run into in a cattle-shed, and several of 

 the liounds came out the worse for wear from the melee that ensued. 

 It was little thought at the time that Hunt was killing his first fox 

 in a country which Jie afterwards hunted for many years, and with 

 such ability as Master of the Wheatland Hounds. 



Some of the hares were killed during the vacation, as Hunt took 

 the hounds home with him and several of his Whips stopped with 

 him to help. The result of this sport was that the Beagles became 

 the fashion, the subscribers increased by leaps and bounds, and the 

 fields became large, but by Hunt's tact and authority they were well 

 in hand and very keen. 



Among many good runs, three recall themselves to the writer 

 even after this lapse of time. 



1. The Shelford run in Lent term 1880. The hare was found 

 near Shelford station and took a wide circle nearly up to Gog Magog 

 and back nearly to Shelford, and thence in a straight line to the 

 G.E. Railway, Newmarket branch, cutting it between Cherry 

 Hinton and Fulbourne, and then running almost parallel with the 

 line, was killed in the goods yard at Cambridge station. There 

 was a large field out but few saw it to the end ; among others at the 

 finish were Cooke, Burges, Haines, Musgrave, liailey, and others. 



^ The liouiids found a hare, but a fox got u]) out of a ludgeiow just outside 

 Oakwood Covert. — li. H. 



