124 THE TRINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



they hunted three days each week. We had one or two riding days 

 in the season, and I remember the present Sir Watkin Wynn jumping 

 into a manure heap and having to be scraped. Mr. Butt Miller, who 

 had the Oakley and V.W.H. many years, began hunting, I believe, 

 on riding days with the Trinity Beagles.^ 



I am inchned to think it is on the whole more difficult to catch 

 a hare with 15-inch foot beagles than to catch a fox with foxhounds. 

 It is perhaps easier to catch a hare in a flat plough country than in 

 a grass country, because a hare gets tired much sooner on the plough. 

 Men who begin hunting by hunting beagles learn an enormous 

 amount about hunting, and are apt to be slow - at first when they 

 change to hunting a fox. 



I should say that we had very good sport during the two years I 

 hunted the Trinity Beagles, but they were, I think, rather good 

 scenting years, and having generally a good many men out, we got a 

 considerable amount of help. I once killed a hare with five old 

 hounds which had been taken on to the meet in the carriage, the 

 rest of the pack having gone to the wrong meet. The run was two 

 and a half hours, and we killed in Wixhall Moss (Salop). The best run 

 that I can remember was in Shropshire. We found close to Loppington 

 Tollgate, ran two very big rings, and then straight for about seven 

 miles, killing in the open close to the Yesters, almost all grass, a very 

 wet day, brooks swollen, and a parson very nearly got drowned. 



(Signed) Rowland Hunt. 



This matter was also passed through Mr. Burges's hands, and he 

 returned it with the following criticisms. 



Letter 



School of Musketry, Hythe, Kent, 

 March 3, 1911. 



Dear Mr. Kemi'SON — Thanks for return of my MSS., and am 

 glad to find it meets your approval. 



^ This is quite true ; B. M. is my brother-in-law. — P. Burges. 



- The same criticism was made by a regular follower of the Cambridgeshire, Mr. 

 Artliur Hurrell, whom I remeiuber well in my young days. On my remarking that 

 T.F. B. was a good school I'or M.F.H. 's, he said it made them too slow. 



