18 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



changed his abode. I do not know whether he 

 hunted all the country from Waddon to Zeals ; if 

 he did, he must have had a very large territory ; 

 but I suppose that, like Mr Farquharson, he hunted 

 a part of the season at one place and part at the 

 other. The kennels at Yeals were converted into 

 a laundry and drying-ground, and those at Waddon 

 into cottage and garden, shortly before I came into 

 the property. 



" I have a very good miniature of Mr W. Chafyn- 

 Grove in his hunt coat, which is scarlet, with silver 

 buttons and a blue velvet collar ; very smart ! 

 There are some curious memoranda in an old 

 pocket-book of his at Yeals relating to his hunts- 

 man's wages, horses, and general expenditure. 

 One entry in the book is as follows : ' Paid Mr G. 

 Komney for portrait of self and wife, 70 guineas.' " 



The Cranborne Chase Hunt had the distinction 

 of being the first country in which hounds were 

 kept to hunt fox to the exclusion of all other kinds 

 of quarry. Mr Thomas Fownes, who purchased 

 certain rights in the Chase, as well as the Manor 

 of Stapleton — or Steepleton — in Dorset, in the 

 middle of the seventeenth century, hunted his 

 hounds from Stapleton, and built up a pack which 

 was said to be the best in England. From the 

 possession of Mr Fownes, Stapleton passed into the 

 hands of Julines Beckford, father of the celebrated 

 Peter Beckford, author of ' Thoughts on Hunting.' 

 The future writer was accustomed to hunting in 

 the Chase from his earliest years, and when he 



