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A GUIDE TO THE 



HAMPSHIRE. 



FOXHOUNDS. 



INTAME OF COUNTRY 

 OR HOUNDS. 



Mr. T. Assheton 

 Smith's. 



Mr. A. Smith. 



HUNTSMAN. 



Geo. Carter. 



DAYS OF 

 HUNTING. 



Every day in 

 the week. 



Favourite Fixtures. — Tidworth Copse; Chute Lodge; Whey 

 Hill ; Connault Park ; Doyle's Wood ; Columborne Wood ; 

 South Grove ; Everleigh Ashes ; Enford Gorse ; Oare Hill ; 

 Clatford Oak Cuts. 



Also hunt part of Wiltshire, ipcluding Salisbury Plain. Mr. 

 Assheton Smithes establishment of hounds and horses is cer- 

 tainly one of the finest in the world. Mr. Smith hunts his 

 hounds himself on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and 

 Fridays ; Carter on Wednesdays and Saturdays — the latter 

 generally in woodlands. Mr. A. Smith hunts a dog pack and 

 a bitch pack ; Carter, the old hounds and puppies — a mixed 

 pack. Six days a week are advertised (they could not well 

 have more), but Mr. Smith and Carter contrive frequently to 

 have dz/e-days, in which case, of course, two packs are out 

 each day. Mr. Smith has ever been distinguished as a true 

 houndsman, and a first-rate performer across country (upon 

 Jack-o^ -lantern he was never beaten) : when a fox is afoot^ 

 '^ Up lads, and at him,^' is the sentiment of his soul ; and 

 Nimrod says, " When a fox is sinking, the Styx itself would 

 not stop him.'' Mr. Smith had the Quorn Hounds from 

 1810 to 1817, when Mr. Osbaldeston took them. His 



